RE: MOT, and doubler

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Original poster: "Loudner, Godfrey by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <gloudner-at-SINTE.EDU>

Hi Mark

Sometimes the diodes are inside the cap. It should say on the can.

odfrey Loudner

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> Subject:	Re: MOT, and doubler
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> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <A123X-at-aol-dot-com>
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> I do not remember seeing any diode like that at all, there were only two 
> wires attached to the cap. The one terminal on the cap had two slide on 
> connection peices, perhaps it fell off while I opened the microwave, or
> some 
> time before than. I'll have to look around my workspace. Didn't you
> mention 
> to Chris Telford that many lower voltage diodes in series may be used? Is
> it 
> ok just to run one tranny unballasted? These things are astonishingly
> small 
> compared to unpotted NST's. 
> 
> Mark 
> 
> In a message dated 5/25/01 9:45:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
> writes: 
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> 
> 
> >
> > 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 
> 
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