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Re: coil running of car battery(s)?



Original poster: Devon Ferns <dferns@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Tesla list wrote:

Original poster: "Jim Lux" <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>

> >12V battery, inexpensive inverter, neon sign transformer, TC
>
> I thought of that, but is the battery enough to run the coil for a few
> hours at least?
> Which is why I think I need to make a pretty small one to make it work.

Standard car battery sized battery is about 50-100 Ah.  That's somewhere
around a kilowatt hour, so you could run a 400 W NST for 2 hrs.


Great, sounds like more than enough for the size I'll build.

Devon.