Re: Filters & Chokes

[FutureT-at-xxxxxxx (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-xxxxxxxxxx>)]

In a message dated 11/14/00 10:07:34 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:

> Hi Gary,
>  
>   Wow!  What a great tidbit of information!  I always was puzzled by your
>  coil's great performance and how "very" hot your resistors were getting.
>  Looks like you have the first SLTR (Saturating Larger Than Resonant) coil!
>  If you can run a 15/60 at 184mA RMS I won't feel so afraid of running mine
>  at 85mA ;-)))  You may want to consider putting a line fuse on the input of
>  the NST to prevent the thing from really going nuclear.  I would think:
>  
>  15000 x 0.184 / 120 = 23 amps!!
>  
>  I guess a 20 amp fast blow fuse would be right!?  I am very surprised it
>  can take that.  I wonder if there is some mechanism that is preventing the
>  NST from going to super high currents.  If one can reliably run and NST at
>  these high currents (2760 watts!!), it would be a major step forward!!  "I"
>  have always been afraid to "play around" up there and I don't scare easy! 
;-)
> ))
>  
>  Cheers,
>  
>   Terry
>  

Terry, Gary, all,

My old 15/60 NST TC drew about the same current as Gary's.
I used a matched size cap at that time and got 65" sparks max.

John Freau