Re: Microwave Xformer

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• Subject: Re: Microwave Xformer
• From: Dan Gowin <gowin-at-epic-1.nwscc.sea06.navy.mil>
• Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 09:27:37 -0500
• Subscriber: gowin-at-epic-1.nwscc.sea06.navy.mil Mon Jan 13 21:54:02 1997

Tesla List wrote:
> 
> Subscriber: brad-at-greenepa-dot-net Sun Jan 12 22:01:45 1997
> Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 23:48:21 -0500
> From: iLLuSioN <brad-at-greenepa-dot-net>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: Microwave Xformer
> 
> >I have a nice clean high voltage Xformer from a microwave. Variac
> >testing at low voltage indicates 2520 V. at line voltage. The microwave
> >was rated at 600W.(I assume that is input to the Magnetron), so you
> >should be able to draw 240ma. with no strain.
> >
> >I'll be happy to trade it for a nice clean(no tar babys please) neon of
> >any rating  or any other TC stuff of equal value.
> 
> All this talk of microwave transformers and tube coils, etc.. has raised a
> few questions for me. I have some schematics of tube coils, etc, provided by
> a few kind people on this list (thank you again). But I am wondering what
> the best tubes to use are... Also, are microwave oven transformers the best
> fitted transformer to operate a tube coil? They are fairly easy to get ahold of.
> 
> Thanks,
> Brad

Brad,
	Triode tubes are the easiest to build to and most are
designed for high energy output. As for transformers, any
plate or filament transformer you can find within 5% of the
rated specs will do.

D. Gowin

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