Re: Big MOT stacks

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Original poster: "bob golding by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <yubba-at-clara-dot-net>

greg,
 i am comtemplating doing something simular for my big coil,but i was going
to go for a 6 pulse recifier and  run the coil on dc. look forward to your
experiments. feel free to mail me off list if you like.

cheers
bob golding.

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Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 6:09 AM
Subject: Big MOT stacks


> Original poster: "Mr Gregory Peters by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <s371034-at-student.uq.edu.au>
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> MOT coilers,
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> I have been reading Greg Hunter's page lately regarding his voltage
> doubled, seriesed 2 MOT supplies. I am quite impressed. It is probably
> the cheapest, easiest 3kVA supply I have seen. I am wondering if anyone
> has tried using two of these circuits in parallel (on a single phase),
> for a whopping 6kVA. Obviously you would need bigger caps and diodes, if
> you wanted to use a single supply. Otherwise you could make two complete
> supplies and wire them in parallel after the diodes, but I would prefer
> just to series/parallel the tansformers and use bigger caps and diodes.
> At power levels this high I guess a static gap would not quench so a
> rotary would need to be used - sync or async?. This supply would match
> the output of a small piggie, but has the advantage that no current
> limiting is needed.
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> Ultimately, I would like to use 3 of these 6kVA supplies in parallel on
> a 3 phase outlet with an async RSG to power my big coil.
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> Greg Peters
> Department of Earth Sciences,
> University of Queensland, Australia
> Phone: 0402 841 677
> http://www.geocities-dot-com/gregjpeters
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