Re: repair

• To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
• Subject: Re: repair
• From: richard hull <rhull-at-richmond.infi-dot-net>
• Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 09:05:54 -0500 (EST)
• Subscriber: rhull-at-richmond.infi-dot-net Sat Feb 1 21:38:17 1997

At 11:16 PM 1/31/97 -0700, you wrote:
>> > > Subject: Re: repair
>
>Subscriber: major-at-vicksburg-dot-com Fri Jan 31 23:12:03 1997
>Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 23:38:56 -0600
>From: RODERICK MAXWELL <major-at-vicksburg-dot-com>
>To: Tesla List <tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>
>Subject: Re: repair
>
>Tesla List wrote:
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>
>  I just unpotted the first of four neon transformers that I got from a
>sign shop in town. The guy there told me they were 15Kv -at-30ma. I'm sure
>they are 15Kv but not so sure about the current rating as the plates
>have all been removed. I kind of went back to the dark ages in the way I
>removed the potting. I boiled them in oil! I used a burner out of a old
>space heater to heat the metal pan pan filled with diesel! I know this
>sounds dangerous folks but it was a good 20' away from anything that
>would burn including yours truly. It really speeds up the process as it
>uses solvent and heat to disolve the tar. Just don't try this at home
>folks! The core looks, and disassembles the same way discribed in the
>archives. One secondary reads megohm resistance and is probably fried.
>The other reads a little over 8kohms. Is this the usual resistance of a
>15kv secondary? Or is this side shorted???
>
>
>                                 Frankensteins Helper
>                                        Max
>

Max,

Your have a good winding!  the secondary windings can range from 2K to 20k
ohms depending on voltage and current rating.  Sounds like a good 7.5kv 30ma
winding to me!!!  Cold chisel the other "frenched" winding off the core and
have a blast.

Richard Hull, TCBOR
>

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