Re: More Power

To: tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: More Power
From: Benson_Barry%PAX5-at-mr.nawcad.navy.mil
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 07:03:00 -0400 (EDT)


When I made it I was concerned about the voltage
hold off across the turns.  Since then I have noticed
that toroids wound with bare magnet wire seem to
work!
Barry

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|From: "tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com"-at-PMDF-at-PAXMB1
|To: Benson Barry; "Tesla-list-subscribers-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com"-at-PMDF-at-PAXMB1
|Subject: Re: More Power
|Date: Monday, December 02, 1996 2:33AM
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|From MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz Sun Dec  1 22:02:51 1996
|Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 09:07:05 +1200
|From: Malcolm Watts <MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz>
|To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
|Subject: Re: More Power
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|Hi Barry,
|
|> I second that.  I cooked (flaming melt down) one 4kv,300mA photocopier
|> transformer.  On the second transformer I put a static gap but set it too
|> far apart (the sparks were awsome from the TC before the transformer
|> arced over!).  I repaired the transformer and set the static gap to
|> breakdown without anything connected to the transformer.  I also put
|> a big choke (50 turns of RG58 without braid on 1" cross section by
|> 3" by 4" hypersil "C" core) in series with the transformer.  Fired the 
coil
|> for N hours without so much as a sputter out of the transformer.
|> Barry
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|Your choke would actually have been better if you'd used the braid
|IMO!  You don't want a ringing choke although the core would have been
|something of a Q killer at TC frequencies.
|
|Malcolm
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