Re: ASG vs NST....and in this corner!

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• Subject: Re: ASG vs NST....and in this corner!
• From: "Malcolm Watts" <MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 07:17:48 -0600
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> Original Poster: "christopher boden" <chrisboden-at-hotmail-dot-com> 
> 
> Okay, here goes....
> 
> Late last night at the Geek Group labs we had one of those thoughts that 
> occur after many hours of consumeing Jolt and tinkering with a group of 
> lunatics.
> 
> Tesla coils pruduce high voltage at high frequency. (Duh)
> Also..Audio Signal Genorators pruduce high frequency. (Duh)
> And NST's produce High Voltage (Do you follow the theme here?)
> 
> The plan was to create a Tesla Coil emulator on a very small scale.
> We were hoping to get 15KV at about 20Khz way too low on both to be a coil 
> tye discharge, bu t we were just tinkerin'.
> 
> We hooked the ASG to the NST and got....JACK! Why?
> We thought it might be due to core saturation in the NST, but we're not 
> sure...any thoughts?

How much power can your signal generator put out?  Are the 
laminations in NSTs designed for low losses at 20kHz+ ?

Malcolm
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