Re: MOT secondaries

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Original poster: "Mark W. Stolz by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <mark_w_stolz-at-hotmail-dot-com>




>Original poster: "Ben McMillen by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
><spoonman534-at-yahoo-dot-com>
>
>
>Hi all,
>   There's one thing about MOT's that I don't understand.. There seems to 
>be
>2 secondary windings.. The first is quite obvious.. the two heavy wires
>that connect to the magnetron.. but then there's a second winding, one end
>of which goes to the core and the other to a spade lug.. What's this one
>for? Does it have something to do with the voltage doubler part of the
>setup? Is there anything that can/should be done with this? (As in, does it
>pose any kind of potential hazard and could it be modified to give more
>output voltage?) Thanks for any info..
>
>Coiling in Pittsburg
>Ben McMillen
>

Ben,

That spade lug lead is the high voltage output, the other side being the 
core.  The heavy wire is low voltage for the filament of the magnetron tube.

Please be very careful, we would hate to hear about you winding up dead.

Mark Stolz
Houston, TX