Re: Old questions, new free time

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Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>
> 
> Hi Ben,
> 
> At 07:49 PM 12/27/2001 -0800, you wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >  I know some of these questions may have been asked
> >before, but I just got about 2 weeks free time to work on
> >TC stuff (no classes till janruary ;) ) so here goes:
> >
> >Is it possible to run an NST on 220 instead of 110? I think
> >I remember ppl doing this because it drew less current..
> 
> If you have twice the voltage, you can use 1/2 the current to get the same
> power...

	You can't run a 120V NST on 220V!  (Actually you can, because it's
yours,  but it won't take long for the smoke to leak out.)  You can use
two identical 120V transformers on 220V if you connect the primaries in
series and the secondaries on parallel, making sure the phasing is
correct.

Ed