Re: Twin Mots

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Original poster: "Dale Nassar by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dnassar-at-i-55-dot-com>

 >>> You can always make some shorted-secondary series inductors

 >>> I heard if one guy here recently that made a mini-pig from 8 
MOTs--don't know how safe this was.

 >>> I have cut out the secondary coil and wound a few turns of heavy guage 
wire and made a multiple-tap transformer--low voltage-      -PLENTY Amps!
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At 08:13 AM 5/24/02 -0600, you wrote:
>Original poster: "Loudner, Godfrey by way of Terry Fritz 
><twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <gloudner-at-SINTE.EDU>
>
>After collecting about 80 mots, I finally found two which are identical.
>They have model number KM 450W and are from White-Westinghouse. The vintage
>is 1977 and the oven is rated 115V and 14.5A. Rated at 2,800V, the secondary
>coil is encased in green plastic. The 0.9uF cap is twice as big as normal
>and the diode is 3/4" wide, 5/16" thick, 4.5" long. Not that a twin mot PSU
>must have identical mots, I just wanted to report what a hassle it was to
>find two mots with the same model number.
>
>By the way, I'm still working intermittently on a useful formula for the
>self capacitance of an isolated toroid that does not breakdown over a wide
>range of toroid sizes. It has become quite a mathematical project. I am
>struggling to strengthen certain inequalities which would allow me to
>complete the task. The capacitance of a toroid drops when placed on a tesla
>coil, but I still enjoy the challenge of the isolated toroid.
>
>Godfrey Loudner