Re: Peak cap voltage, was 12kV, 30ma TC specs, 42" spark

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Subject: Re: Peak cap voltage, was 12kV, 30ma TC specs, 42" spark
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Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 18:24:09 -0500
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Subject: 	Re: Peak cap voltage, was 12kV, 30ma TC specs, 42" spark

> Jason, all,
>                I paid a visit to a local neon sign company yesterday 
> and had a chat about transformer ratings. I am assured that going 
> beyond the peak o/c output voltage is definitely asking for a 
> premature transformer failure (I haven't killed one yet in order to 
> find out :) 
  >>

Malcolm, all,

I wonder how knowledgeable neon shop workers would be about
over-volting neon trannies?  It doesn't seem they would have
a lot of experience with this sort of thing.  It will be interesting to
see how long my 12kV trannie lasts while charging the cap to
32kV.  I'll report from time to time on how it's faring, and if any
failures occur.

John Freau