Re: X-ray trans circuitry question

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Original poster: "Dr. Resonance" <resonance-at-jvlnet-dot-com> 


The resistor networks were used for external metering.  There is probably a
filament xmfr on the core also for filament voltage for tube rectifiers.

Dr. Resonance

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 >
 >   It's rated output is 60kv, 3.5kVA.  I hope to use it as a Marx bank
power
 > source.  I've never dealt with one of these beasts before.  As far as I
can
 > tell, the hv tranny is supplied with conditioned 220V from the gold
 > transformer (at the leads in the foreground of the center picture).  The
 > outer winding on the large core is connected via heavily insulated leads
to
 > the resistor network.  Five additional inputs enter the picture here, two
 > attached to the resistors, three go into one winding on the smaller core.
 >   The resistor bank is attached to a hv capacitor and the short winding on
 > the small core.  The short winding has two outputs hanging loose, which I
 > assume are the final hv output.  I'm also assuming the resistors,
 > capacitor, the second core and windings are current limiting circuitry.
 >   I ask for help understanding the circuitry in the transformer.  The
 > resistor bank, for example, has some  'mystery' devices on it that I've
 > never seen the counterpart to: a yellow plastic 'black box' with two
leads,
 > a couple of sealed glass tubes that resemble blown fuses or spark gaps?
 > I will post a crude schematic once I figure some more out.
 >
 > thanks,
 > Ben Ziegler
 > --
 > btw, the x-ray tube has been rendered inoperable post-photo.
 >
 >
 >