wierd MOT's

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <A123X-at-aol-dot-com>

Having finally completed my power control box I decided to try measuring the 
voltages of my MOT's by putting only 12v into the primary and measuring the 
secondary. The results I got were 90v output which suggests the MOT only has 
an output of 900v. I decided to raise the variac up and the output voltage of 
the MOT continued to fit the same pattern. Then a little past 60v my 
multimeter began making a wierd noise and not working right. Now under the 
same pattern as before the output should have only been about 500v which is 
well below the 750vac the multimeter should be able to read. Can anyone why 
my multimeter broke and my MOT appearently only puts out 900v?

Mark