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Potato Chips (fwd)
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From: Bert Pool [SMTP:bertpool-at-ticnet-dot-com]
Sent: Monday, April 27, 1998 6:28 AM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: Potato Chips (fwd)
Date forwarded: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 21:55:07 -0600
Date sent: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 21:55:06 -0600 (MDT)
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Potato Chips (fwd)
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> Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 05:08:25 -0700 (PDT)
> From: gweaver <gweaver-at-earthlink-dot-net>
> To: Tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Potato Chips
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> The laminations on one of my unpotted neons is out of square. The thing
> is twisted looking and I don't like the way it looks so I took it all
> apart. The laminations were stuck together with something like varnish or
> polyurethane. I decided to sand blast the laminations to remove the
> varnish.
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> Gary Weaver
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Gary - do *not* remove the varnish off the laminations! The varnish is there to
electrically isolate each metal plate from the next. As I recall, the insulation
reduces either hysteresis losses or eddy current losses in the transformer.
Bert Pool
TCBFW
bertpool-at-ticnet-dot-com