Re: air ionization and also balancing chokes

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Original poster: "BunnyKiller by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <bigfoo39-at-telocity-dot-com>

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>Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<Tesla729-at-cs-dot-com>
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>Hey all,
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>I just wanted to share an observation that I have recently made 
>that I'm sure is nothing new, but I thought that I would throw it 
>out for comments :-) I've noticed after running my "big pig" coil
>system in my garage that my x-ray tranny powered Jacob's 
>ladder will self start at a somewhat lower setting on the control 
>variac. I'm sure the coil is adding extra ions to the air inside the 
>garage which is causing a noticably lower breakdown voltage
>for the Jacob's ladder at its 7.5" minimum clearance. Yep, that's
>right, 7 1/2" is the MINIMUM spacing of my Jacob's ladder rails
>so that's easily in excess of 100 kV just to get the thing started.
>That's what you can do with a decent-sized x-ray tranny, heh
>Duck? ;-)
>Anyway, I have two GE 280 volt, 30 amp variacs paralleled to 
>control this x-ray tranny beast and they work good but I now
>need to build a paralleling choke to keep from shorting the 
>variacs. I don't have any problems with this unless I turn the 
>variac(s) all the way to one side or the other (minimum or max-
>imum voltage output). Then the brushes and/or the pig tails that
>connect to the brushes start smoking :-O Anyway, I know dis-
>cussions on how to make a homemade paralleling choke has 
>been covered on this list before, but at this time, I can't seem
>to locate any of them :-( If anyone could point me in the right di-
>rection to obtain this info, I would most appreciate it :-)
>
>Sparking in Memphis,
>David Rieben
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Hi David....

check out my webpage  under tesla coiling     under paralleling variacs

HTTP://members.telocity-dot-com/~bigfoo39/

Scot D