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Re: FREE NST's

>Original Poster: "Adam" <adamsmith-at-mediaone-dot-net>
>
>
> > 1. RF ground post (or whatever) to one end of you 6AWG cable.
> > 2. Other end of RF ground to a small terminal on the bottom of your 
>Primary
> > Col Form (the underside of the table). THIS TERMINAL DOES NOT CONNECT TO 
>THE
> > PRIMARY IN ANY WAY!!!!!
> > 3. Connect Secondary Bottom lead to the RF ground terminal.
> > 4. Connect a 10AWG wire to EACH NST case ground.
> > 5. Connect a 10AWG wire From the NST gounds to the RF ground terminal.
> > 6. Connect a 10AWG wire from your Safety Gap Ground to the RF ground
> > terminal.
> > 7. PHASE YOUR NST's (for instructons on this just ask the list, or email 
>me
> > if you don't know already)
> > 8. Connect HV terminal #1 of your NST supply to one side of the safety 
>Gap
> > with 10AWG wire.
> > 9. Connect HV terminal #1 of your NST supply to one side of your Spark 
>Gap
> > with 10AWG wire.
> > 10 Connect HV terminal #2 of the NST supply to the other side of the 
>spark
> > and safety gaps the same way as the 1st side.
> > 11. Connect one side of the capacitor to the center turn of the primary 
>with
> > 10AWG wire.
> > 12. Connect the other side of the cap bank to one side of the Spark Gap 
>with
> > 10AWG wire.
> > 13. Connect the other side of the spark gap to your primary tap point 
>with
> > 10AWG wire, this should terminate in an alligator clip.
> > 14. Connect your primary connections of the nst's to your control panel, 
>or
> > if you're feeling lucky........an extection cord, but I would not 
>reccomend
> > it.
> >
> > I would reccomend Larger wire than 10AWG, but it will work, it's what I 
>use.
> > Bt I am upgrading to 6 soon.
>
>Chris, you don't need such heavy gauge wire for ALL the high-voltage 60Hz
>circuits, only for the grounds and tank circuit connections.  10 gauge wire
>is needed for circuits with 30+ amps continuous.  120mA worth of NSTs will
>not put out much more than a couple hundred mA continuously.
>
>I use 14 gauge GTO on to connect my neons to each other, and to my safety
>gap, bypass caps, etc... My tank circuit uses copper flashing strips as the
>conductors, and my NST cases and safety gap are connected to my #00 ground
>cable with #6.
>
>-Adam
>adamsmith-at-mediaone-dot-net
>

I was happy I got all the connections right....lol I went from the schematic 
in my head, and my photographic memory uses really bad film these days.

I was just quoteing what we have in our setup, it's constantly evolveing and 
most of the connections are now made with 15KV 14AWG NST wire, and a little 
10AWG stuff still.

This weekend we do the first test with 4 12/60 nst's in paralell....I can't 
wait :)


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