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Re: Neon Sign Transformer
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999 16:04:22 -0600 Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> writes:
> Original Poster: "Spud" <spud-at-wf-dot-net>
The two smaller terminals on the same insulator are the hot and neutral
connections to mains, and the third small terminal is connected to the
mains electrical ground. The two larger HV insulators are, as you most
probably suspected, the high voltage terminals.
Grayson Dietrich
http://www.electrophile.8m-dot-com
> I was wondering where I could find instructions on how to operate my
> new
> neon sign transfomer. I have a working knowledge of electronics,
> but this
> thing has like five terminals and none of them are labeled in any
> way.
> There are four terminals on the front. The two terminals on the
> left side
> are part of the same piece of plastic. On the right there is a big
> plastic
> 'bee-hive' thing with a terminal on the end. (I don't know what to
> call
> them, but they are ribbed kinda like beehives. You see them on
> powerlines
> holding up the cables.) Then right underneath that there is one
> more
> terminal that is just a screw coming right out of the case. So the
> front
> side looks kinda like this:
> _______________
> | __ ___ |
> | | 0 | / 0 \ |
> | | | \___/ |
> | | 0 | |
> | 0 |
> |_______________|
>
> On the back there is one more terminal on a beehive-thing. I'm
> almost
> positive of what that's for.
> Thanks in advance for any help; I hope I am not seeming too much
> like a
> retard to you, cause I sure feel like one. :)
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan
>
>
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