Re: depotted nst confusion

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Original poster: "Harold Weiss by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <hweiss-at-new.rr-dot-com>

Hi Adam,

Are you sure you reset the breaker correctly?  If you did and it's still not
working, it may be a bad breaker.  I think that NST may be due for the scrap
heap.  You may have a short from the primary to ground.  Another thought,
could you be using a GFI outlet?  I have had problems with NSTs on GFI
outlets before. (they don't like Jacob's ladders or TC's very well.)  I have
a 15/60 with an intermittant primary short, that can trip a 20A breaker
before I even get a spark in the gap, and a minute later it will do a 5 min
run with no problem.

Good luck,
David E Weiss


 > Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<Beans45601-at-aol-dot-com>
 >
 > Well, I depoted my 12/60 nst (I am never EVER using nst's again, they are
 > no fun to depot) and I plug it in. Well, if attach the ground to the
 > appropriate place, all the lights in my house dim for a second and then
the
 > circuit breaker shuts it off. If touch one of the hv ends (only one is
 > working) to the ground, the circuit breaker trips, and when you untrip (is
 > that a word?) it, the outlet still does not work. This sounds bad. What is
 > going on with my transformer?
 > Thanks
 > Adam
 >
 >
 >