Re: Metal Rotor = Isolated Motor?

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Greg,

I suppose it is not "impossible".  The rotor is at ground and it is
basically taking both sides of the circuit to ground too.  However, I would
think the unbalanced currents would quickly chew the rotor bearings up as
well as transmit RF wildly around the house.  Definitly not the recommended
why but I am interested to here more of this?  If Jason can get this to
work, it would be interesting to find out why the "bad" things do not happen...

Cheers,

	Terry

At 06:24 PM 6/23/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Dear List,
>
>After corresponding a bit with Jason Johnson regarding
>his MOT coil with RSG, I have a question:  If one uses
>a metal rotor on an RSG, is isolation of the motor (or
>the rotor) required?  I'm asking because I assumed
>isolation was neccessary, but Jason tells me his RSG
>motor isn't isolated. Why doesn't the 4KVAC instantly
>fry his RSG motor?
>
>Regards,
>
>Greg
>http://hot-streamer-dot-com/greg
>
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