Re: MOT, and doubler

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Original poster: "Gregory Hunter by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <ghunter31014-at-yahoo-dot-com>

Unfortunately, there are many, many different MOTs out
there.  I assume you want a matched pair.  If you
e-mail me a JPG of it, perhaps I can match one up from
my stash.

The diode is usually made of black plastic.  It might
be a small cylinder about the size of a cigarette
filter, with axial leads of stiff wire.  It might be a
rectangular plastic brick an inch or two long.  Some
of them have spade terminals instead of wire leads.
Rarely I have found diodes with a hole at each end for
screw mounting, with spade terminals. It should have
been attached to the capacitor somehow.

I once built a very potent 12kvdc Tesla coil power
supply based on two MOTs with voltage doublers.  The
thing sucked 20 Amps from a 240V welder outlet and
eventually destroyed my expensive MMC, but what a
performer!  I still have all the pieces of it in my
garage, although the MOTs now serve as my pig ballast.
 You can see it on my web site.

Regards,

Greg
http://hot-streamer-dot-com/greg

--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <A123X-at-aol-dot-com>
> 
> As soon as I decided to look for an MOT I found
> someone throwing a microwave 
> out. Not very big, the cap is rated at 2000vac so
> I'm assuming thats what the 
> transformer voltage is. I think the capacitance was
> .85uf, any idea on the 
> current? I couldn't find the diode though. Perhaps
> it is in this small box 
> attached to the magnetron? If anyone has the same
> size MOT and the doubler 
> and will give it to me for the shipping I'd be happy
> to have it. 
> 
> Mark
> 
> 


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