Re: Cleaned Up MOT Stack

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Original poster: "Barton B. Anderson by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tesla123-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Hi Greg,

Hey, very nice!  A couple months ago, I ran across amo-boxes and picked up
a couple. Your right, the size
is perfect. Haven't complete the MOT setup, but probably follow your
layout. Thanks for the photos. BTW,
are those safety gaps on top of the can?

Take care,
Bart

Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "Gregory Hunter by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <ghunter31014-at-yahoo-dot-com>
>
> Dear List,
>
> I got rid of the "bird nest" wiring on my new 4-pack
> MOT stack. The thing cleaned up pretty good!
>
> 139KB closeup for widebanders:
>
> http://hot-streamer-dot-com/greg/neater01.jpg
>
> and for our poor dialup friends at 27KB:
>
> http://hot-streamer-dot-com/greg/neater02.jpg
>
> and another angle at 15KB:
>
> http://hot-streamer-dot-com/greg/neater03.jpg
>
> It doesn't work better, but it sure looks better (and
> safer). The spade terminals allow for quick disconnect
> of the two boxes should I ever care to go mobile or
> perhaps rewire for 120v operation. I used a standard
> 2-row barrier strip terminal bloc that I found in my
> junk box (of course). All spade terminals are both
> crimped and soldered. Note the improved adjustable
> safety gaps instead of the junky pieces of bent wire.
> The pennies are to prevent the safety gaps from plasma
> arcing a hole thru the ammo can.
>
> As an interesting aside, I tried all 10 ballast caps
> in a single series row on one HV leg between the rear
> (grounded) and front (floating) MOT boxes. Performance
> was abysmal. I broke them up again into two rows of 5,
> one row on each HV leg,  and performance was good
> again. I wonder what that's about? Why on earth would
> it matter how I series my ballast caps? Oh well--just
> one of those things.
>
> Most of the time I run with 8 series MOT caps for
> 3300VA (predicted, not measured). The light-duty 15A
> orange power cord (plugged into a 240v/20A outlet)
> barely gets warm. Life is good.
>
> Regards,
>
> =====
> Gregory R. Hunter
>
> http://hot-streamer-dot-com/greg