RE: Ballast

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

Hi Mark

Don't waste your time gapping a MOT. I see no benefit in the task.  

Godfrey Loudner

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> Subject:	Ballast
> 
> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
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> 
> I'm planning to make a gapped core ballast with an MOT core. I'm looking
> to get
> around 16amps, or 8amps if I use my variac to take the voltage to 240v.
> Anyway,
> can I just use the original primary as the winding for the ballast? Also I
> don't have anything to measure the current with. Will radioshack have good
> enough meters? 
> 
> Mark
>