Re: wierd MOT's

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Original poster: "Malcolm Watts by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <m.j.watts-at-massey.ac.nz>

Hi Mark,

On 24 Jul 2002, at 20:14, Tesla list wrote:

> 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

Is the transformer *known* to be good? 

Regards,
malcolm