Re: MOT Utilizing Tesla Coil

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Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>

What you are talking about is an impulse transformer... Check out Steve
Hansen's "the Bell Jar" (most of it's on line, do a search)..which had an
article about building one.  For more technical detail, Fruengel's book has
about 10 pages on it.


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Subject: RE: MOT Utilizing Tesla Coil


> Original poster: "Pete Komen by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<pkomen-at-zianet-dot-com>
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> Hello Cory,
>
> Sounds like an interesting idea...
>
> The coin shrinkers use around 6 to 10 K Joules and the primary coil is
> destroyed.  Dumping large amounts of energy in short periods of time into
> any coil could be destructive.  Look at Bert Hickman's site:
> http://www.aquila-dot-net/bert.hickman/frames/frameindex.html
>
> One Watt is one Joule per second.  Storing the output of a 700W
transformer
> for 1.5 seconds can only yield 1050 Joules.
>
> You may want to start small and work up.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Pete Komen
>
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> Subject: MOT Utilizing Tesla Coil
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> Original poster: "Cory Roussel by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <imcuddlycory-at-yahoo-dot-com>
>
> Hello,
> I have some old MOTs sitting around and i was
> wondering if instead of a high frequency Tesla Coil,
> instead a type of extremely high energy discharge coil
> could be made from these MOTs... It would be great if
> i could just gather some critiques and or opinions
> from Coilers on this board.  The basic idea im sure
> has been used somewhere, but it is just to use a 2KV
> source to charge capacitive banks, and then discharge
> the banks into a coil with an extreme turn ratio to
> create extremely LONG and hot streamers...  i was
> thinking along the lines of a discharge per second or
> two rendering about 700W from one MOT times 1.5 Secs =
> around 70000 joules... :-D...i realize switching and
> preventing plasma type explosions would be a
> problem... ideas? sites that may help? problems i
> havent seen???
>
> thanks,
>
> Cory Roussel
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