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Re: Help w/ Chokes
> I am wondering how you arrived at the current capabilities of your
> transformers. The reason is that electrostatic copiers require high voltage
> , but only for the production of corona. The current requirements are so
> low that a more normal rating would be 4 Milliamps. I have 4 or 5 of these,
> and none of them can provide enough current to adequately energize a
> discharge tube (used to display the Crookes dark space, rough test for vacuum
> , etc.). These tubes only require about 10 milliamps. Do you have a spec
> plate on the transformer? Please don't be insulted, I just would hate to
> have you waste time building something with inadequate transformers! It
> is entirely possible that your copiers are something industrial that I am not
> familiar with, but even the office sized copiers do not have high power
> transformers.
>
> Hoping for a legible specifications plate,
>
> Jack
Jack,
Yes, the ratings are correct. A previous version of my current coil pumped out hot six footers
with two 5kV-at-.3A transformers of this type. They weigh about 35lbs. each and the GE part number
is(are) 9T68Y5021G10. There are photographs of the tops of these transformers on the
www.ddlabs-dot-com/tesla.html site.
...Jeff