Smoking the Neons!

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• Subject: Smoking the Neons!
• From: jgore-at-cyberramp-dot-net
• Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 01:48:51 +0000

>Determine if you actually need a rotary. If you're only going to drive
>from neons, a rotary won't improve your performance. - it'll only
>smoke the neons!  Don't try to go cheap and dirty on a rotary. 

Could someone explain this statement? How does using a rotary hurt my 
neon sign transformers, and or my caps? I'm not being critical here, I really
just don't know!
I've designed my coil to use two 9KV neons, to make about 3 foot 
arcs. Is a rotary really going to blow it? what could I do to make a 
rotary work with a small coil like this?
Thanks for any info...........................Jerry
-=*< If your not shooting in 3D then your not getting the whole picture >*=-

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