Re: Carrying a Full Load (fwd)

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Carrying a Full Load (fwd)
From: Tesla List <mod1-at-pupman-dot-com>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 21:31:13 -0600 (MDT)
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Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 11:49:30 EDT
From: Alfred A Skrocki <alfred.skrocki.sr-at-juno-dot-com>
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Carrying a Full Load (fwd)

On Mon, 3 Aug 1998 07:48:14 -0700 Michael Baumann
<baumann-at-proton.llumc.edu> wrote;

>Alfred: you haven't watched a bug zapper in work, have you?
>Those things *must* be current limited. I've had some really good
>sized beetles and such hit mine, they sizzle and pop and burst into 
>flame. Continuous discharges for 20-40 seconds when this happens are 
>not uncommon.

I don't tend to sit and stare at operating "bug-zapers" because I have
severe migraines and the U.V. light seems to trigger them. But I will
point out that something in the range of 30 seconds is nothing like
running the little bugger for minutes on end. I looked at the
construction
of several of these transformers and I see no magnetic shunts, but their
secondaries are very well insulated. Their primary's are another story.
The primary looks cery much like the windings on small shaded pole
motors.
I would defintly not try pusing these transformers too far.

>[Oh, and i did make a very small coil powered by one. It worked, sort 
>of. Had a hell of a time quenching the gap. Not because of current, but 
>because of what I did not know]

Out of curiosity do you remember the specs on that coil and what kind of
output
you got from it. These transformers are typicaly rated at 5KV -at- 9 ma. or
about
45 watts, enough for a couple of inches of spark, I'd say.

                               Alfred A. Skrocki
                          Alfred.Skrocki.Sr-at-JUNO-dot-com
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