Re: caps and JL

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

Hi Ralph,

I go buy the charts at:

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/TeslaCoils/Misc/NSTStudy/NSTStudy.htm

to find the currents and then go up say 30% beyond that.  You don't want
the fuses to blow for no good reason.  When the NST goes nuclear, the
current like tripples so it is not a suble current change at all.  If your
using PFC caps then the currents are lower.  I would individually fuse each
NST.

Cheers,

	Terry


At 10:38 AM 5/31/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 5/29/01 1:47:19 PM Central Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
>writes:
>
><< I put fuses on the inputs of my NSTs to stop them if they go into this
> state. >>
>
>Hi Terry,
>
>Sounds like a good idea. I meter the AC line current thru the variac, but I 
>do not use 
>fuses on the NST primary. In a parallel bank of NSTs do you fuse each NST 
>primary,
>and how do you rate the fuses?
>
>Happy day,
>Ralph Zekelman
>