Re: Strange neons

["Christopher Boden" <chrisboden-at-hotmail-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

>Original poster: "Dan Kunkel" <dankunkel-at-hotmail-dot-com>
>
>Coilers,
>
>I recently bought two 15000v 30 ma neons. They are franceformers.  The
>strange things is that they are not center tapped. In fact all the wires
>(low and high voltage) go straight into the tar potting. The only ground is
>a green wire that is bolted onto the outside metal case. I don't really see
>any problems with these units...but recently thought that maybe this would
>present a problem when wiring up a filter network since the best ones seem
>to have a ground reference that coincides with the center tap of the NST. 
>Is
>it possible that the CORE is grounded to the case? Any way how do I hook up
>a filter (I am also going to be using a 15000v 60 ma wired in parallel with
>the other two, and it does have a center tap). Help anyone?
>
>Dan


You're fine Dan! Just treat it like you would a egular NST. Is it White? 
With a little handle on one side, a flip up lid with a screw on one end? And 
there's a little junction-box area in one end? That's like one of the ones I 
have by France. btw, they're a DREAM to depot. :) And with a France, that's 
a plus. They have the life expectancy of about 30 sec.


Each of the WV wires is one end of the dual secondaries, and the Ground 
(case) is center tapped.

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