RE: Duty Cycle

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Original poster: "Ted Rosenberg by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Ted.Rosenberg-at-radioshack-dot-com>

Thanks Jon. Now I have at least a sort of a yardstick. As I tried to recall,
no one in particular ever said in so many words "I was running my coil
for...." on the list.
Or...I was running my coil for X time units until the cops showed up <big
silly smile>.

Ted

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 4:33 PM
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Duty Cycle


Original poster: "Jonathan Peakall by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jpeakall-at-mcn-dot-org>

Ted,

Well, I once let my coil go for 30 min continous, on full power,

<snip>
Jonathan Peakall

> What has the list's experience been with max ON time of anyone's coil?
> In other words, how long has anyone left their coil on before they felt it
> was "too long" and had everything go OK?