Re: MOT powered Magnifier???

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Original poster: "Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <acmq-at-compuland-dot-com.br>

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "Tim J by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<digital_raven45-at-hotmail-dot-com>
> 
> Anybody here had luck with a MOT powered Magnifier System??? Would it
> work??? .....My coil will be using 6 seriesed MOT's with middle two
> transformers center tapped and rest kept floating. Whole setup will be under
> Mineral Oil!!!
> 
>         I don't know alot about these Magnifier systems!!! How do you set
them
> up----> and whats the theory behind them?? I have some guesses as to why
> they might work...but I'm not totally sure.

For a capacitor-discharge magnifier, some theory is explained in:
http://www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/tesla/magnifier.html.

No problem in using a MOT for the power supply. The power suply is the
same for a conventional Tesla coil.

Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz