Re: SS Neon power transformer operation

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Original poster: "jimmy hynes by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <chunkyboy86-at-yahoo-dot-com>


mine works fine on 2 phase 60hz. i did use it for powering my tesla coil, 
but it didnt work too well

  Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
>Original poster: "David Speck by way of Terry Fritz "
>
>Group:
>
>Has anyone had experience with the 220V 50 Hz input, 15 kV, 20 kHz 20 mA
>output solid state neon supplies being offered on eBay for $9.99 each?
>
>I know that they are not suitable for TC power work, but I have a custom
>xenon filled snake tube that currently uses a similar 9 KV SS supply, and
>is operating intermittently, perhaps because of gas cleanup, or a very slow
>leak. Whatever the cause, the discharge goes fuzzy at times, or fails to
>completely arc across the 48" tube. If I run a hand along the outside of
>the tube, I can usually get the discharge to operate properly again, at
>least for a minute or two. I'm betting that a hotter supply would make the
>tube run again, at least for a while.
>
>I can easily rig an autotransformer to! get 220 volts for the input. I
>suspect that these use a switching type driver that rectifies the input 110
>Vac line input, and probably wouldn't care much if it was seeing 50 Hz or
>60 Hz. However, I thought I'd ask in case some had an experience blowing
>one up on 60 Hz power.
>
>Any experiences would be appreciated.
>Thanks, Dave
>
>


JImmy