Re: High Voltage Question

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Original poster: "Jason Petrou by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jasonp-at-btinternet-dot-com>

Yup! The insulation of the wire that you are using will break down - usually
you cant get more than 100KV out of a normal xfmr wore, unless it has been
designed to take the voltage!

Jason
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Subject: High Voltage Question


> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<Irrelative-at-aol-dot-com>
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> How high a voltage can someone create through simple turn ratios?  Is
there
> something (physical breakdown?) that prevents making transformers with
> megavolts?  Just curious...
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