Re: MOT charging anomaly partly resolved (fwd)

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Original poster: Tesla List Moderator <mod1-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>



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Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 23:10:22 +0100
From: Finn Hammer <f-hammer-at-post5.tele.dk>
To: Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: MOT charging anomaly partly resolved (fwd)

Ed!, all

Yes, It is a 3000 RPM (50Hz) 300 BPS

You can see it here:

http://home5.inet.tele.dk/f-hammer/tesla/ambassador/ambassador.htm

Cheers, Finn Hammer

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: Tesla List Moderator <mod1-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>
> 
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> Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 14:24:17 EST
> From: Esondrmn-at-aol-dot-com
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: MOT charging anomaly partly resolved (fwd)
> 
> In a message dated 12/5/00 11:06:34 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:
> 
> <<    snip   >>
> 
>  Unfortunately, something started to smell at this point: the center
>  electrode (which is no doubt going to be the achilles heel of this coil)
>  had developed a gap, and was rapidly burning away. It`s copper for the
>  upper part, and a change to all tungsten is now indicated.
> 
>  Running the coil inside the small basement workshop at more or less full
>  output would normally not have been possible, if I had not completely
>  shorted the toroid to ground.
> 
>  Cheers, Finn Hammer
> 
>   >>
> Finn,
> 
> Is this a synchronous gap?  What is the bps?
> 
> Ed Sonderman