On 3/19/12 12:37 PM, Gary Lau wrote:
NST's can behave in unexpected ways with regard to power processed, vs. applied voltage and capacitive load. I performed an experiment to determine the optimum capacitor value for 15/30 and 15/60 NST's, at 120V and max Variac (~135V) input voltage. The experiment and results are documented at https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B0afsm3K5nFYNGQ3MmJlZGEtYjQ5My00OTJhLTkwNDMtOWEwMjRkYWJkZjAy
Interesting sets of data..On the first test, what was the AC voltage (you said Variac at Max, but what was that?)
I note that the power increase is about what I'd expect if it's putting out 135V vs 120V (that is, the power is P120*(135/120)^2)
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