Re: NST project: what to do next

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Original poster: "colin.heath4 by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <colin.heath4-at-ntlworld-dot-com>

hi
    if your nst protection is like ours on our tunewell transformers (uk)
they can be overiden with a shorting link
do you have a pic of the circuit board and ill tell you if its possible
cheers
colin heath
colin.heath4-at-ntlworld-dot-com

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> Original poster: "Alan Yang by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
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> Lance,
> I would assume that you could just cut out this circuit board. Basically
> you want a hunk of iron core and copper windings. Check Ross Overstreet's
> site for detailed pictures of a depotted NST.
> http://hot-streamer-dot-com/ross/projects/ac_coil/psu.html He ran this nst at
> around 200 ma. that's almost 4x the rating on the cover!
>
> -Alan
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> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <MrViper82-at-aol-dot-com>
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> Hey All,
>
> I have a 15/60 nst that has a "Secondary Ground Fault Protection" on it.
> Since this will not work with a tesla coil I decided to de-pot it.  After
a
> couple weeks, the transformer is finally out of its case.  Now, the
question
> is what all does a normal nst (no protection stuff) consist of.  I am
asking
> this because I dont know exactly what to do to bypass the SGFP.  Is it
just
> straight forward line-voltage to primary coil or do non-protected nst's
have
> some kind of circuit in them, because this particular nst has a prinited
> curcuit board with capacitors, resisters, etc.  I'm hoping all I have to
do
> is bypass this curcuit but that seems too easy, therefore, my reason for
> writing to the list.  Another thing, what is the best thing to use in
> re-potting the nst.
>
> All comments are very welcome
> Thanks everyone,
> Lance
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