RE: Re-winding a NST

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Original poster: "sundog by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <sundog-at-timeship-dot-net>

Hi Pete, All

Hmm, looks like I did it good and wrong :)  It's the glaring errors that get
me.  No huge deal, as I haven't started on the new secondarys yet (still
need some supplies.)

I'll re-check the thing as soon as i get the time.  I ran it off the 8v
tranny because I thought the 120v primary would draw excessive current by
itself on the core (the 8v200ma tranny carried on like it had a dead short
when energized).  despite sitting outside in the sun for a few days, the
primary still smelt like gas pretty strong, and the idea of setting my work
table on fire wasn't appealing.  A goodly case of temporary brainfade
(happens to all of us).  I'm lacking my ozone fix, that's gotta be the
problem ;)  We'll see what I come up with.

Thanks for pointing that out!  Otherwise I'd be re-winding a new 304 turn
primary too ;)
													Shad


> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 10:08 AM
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> Subject: RE: Re-winding a NST
>
>
> Original poster: "Pete Komen by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <pkomen-at-zianet-dot-com>
>
> Hi Shad,
>
> Maybe someone can correct me if I am wrong but I don't
> understand why you
> multiply 8*38 to get primary turns.  If the NST primary (the
> secondary in
> your test) is giving 38 volts using 1 volt per turn input,
> wouldn't the
> primary be 38 turns?  The equation to solve is  8t/8v =
> xt/38v  xt (the
> number of turns) is 38.  About 3.16 volts per turn figuring
> 120 volt input
> to the NST primary.  I don't know if 3 volts per turn is
> feasible and I
> don't want to dig into my physics book which may or probably
> not tell me.
>
> Why not hook the NST primary to 120v and measure the voltage on your
> temporary 8 turn secondary?
>
> Regards,
>
> Pete
>
> -----Original Message-----
Snippers !