Re: power transformers

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Original poster: "Alexander Rice by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <alex-at-rices.myip-dot-org>

17/06/2002 23:58:13, "Tesla list" 
<tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:

>Original poster: "R. Bergmann by way of 
Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
<bergmann_-at-hotmail-dot-com>
>
>Does anybody know where I can get some 
high power/voltage power 
>transformers?  I need ones with four 
leads.  I am making a VTTC.
>
>
>Thanks,
>R.

Umm,
	if you are specifying your 
transformer on the basis of the number of 
wires it has you should probably not start 
with a vacuum tube based coil as they 
requre a considerable knowledge of 
electronics if you are to make it work 
satisfactorily. Nonetheless, people often 
use microwave oven tranformers for the B+ 
voltage, sometimes rewinding to obtain the 
requred voltage, some use custom 
tranformers for their specific tube. To 
supply filament power most people wind 
their own trasformer on an old core 
because they only need a few dozen turns.

really you would probably would do better 
to scavenge a neon sign transformer and 
make an ordinary spark gap coil and 
progress form there

regards

alex
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