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Re: More Power



Tesla List wrote:
> 
> >From MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nzMon Nov 25 22:46:49 1996
> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 15:08:31 +1200
> From: Malcolm Watts <MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: More Power
> 
> Hi everyone,
>               Well I finally had a stroke of luck today. A colleague
> has given me (on permanent loan) a transformer with the following
> spec: I/P 220V, O/P = 4.8kVRMS -at- 820mA. With suitably adjusted break
> rate and charging choke I should be able to generate any kind of
> supply for TC expts. This is more like it! notwithstanding my current
> capacitor misery. The transformer is out of an old commercial uWave
> oven. It is open and features two leads in and two leads of EHT cable
> out. It has a stndard E-I core. It may be possible to place a boost
> choke on the primary side and run it in oil. It's pretty heavy but
> fairly small and non-potted. Here's to making that new resonator sing
> a real song sometime next year :)
> 
> Malcolm


Malcolm -

  Be damn sure that you protect the HV secondary from RF transients! I
smoked several plate transformers (microwave oven & others) until I
figured it out. Pigs gotta survive lightning surges. Ovens don't.

- brent