Re: abreviations. now NST primary voltage

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• Subject: Re: abreviations. now NST primary voltage
• From: "Megavolt Nick" <tesla-at-fieldfamily.prontoserve.co.uk> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 06:47:01 -0700
• Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
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Hi All,
         just spotted a typo - I meant 50% over voltage.

> Original Poster: "Megavolt Nick" <tesla-at-fieldfamily.prontoserve.co.uk>
>
>
> Hi Ralph,
>                I take you to mean that because it is possible to burn the
> pri out you must be able put more power into it with increased voltage?
> The answer is that once the core saturates you can put as much power as
you
> like in and still get not much more than the design voltage out - most
neons
> will probably have saturated by 20% over voltage.
> Another reason that the power you get out won't increase too much is that
> the losses in a steel core get big fast above about 1.5T.
>
> Regards
> Nick Field
>
> > <<  you
> >  won't get any performance increase above about 135V ac into a neon -
> beyond
> > >>
> >
> > Nick,
> > Can't you burn out the primary? My variac will do 140 V in a 120 V zone.
> :-))
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Ralph Zekelman
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>

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