RE: Hard to find NST - France 4020SE

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Original poster: "Dwight Harm by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dwighth-at-traxsoft-dot-com>

I see 4Kv/30ma NSTs on ebay fairly often, here's an Actown one now:
http://cgi.ebay-dot-com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2529593736
These would qualify for "category 2" of the competition, but not "Category
1".
(http://www.laushaus-dot-com/tesla/minicoilcontest/index.htm)

I've also run into the "liability" problem trying to get used NSTs from sign
shops.

Dwight.

 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
 > Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 10:17 PM
 > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 > Subject: Re: Hard to find NST - France 4020SE
 >
 >
 > Original poster: "Jeremy Scott by way of Terry Fritz
 > <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <supertux1-at-yahoo-dot-com>
 >
 > Yeah tell me about it.
 >
 > Newer NST's have the GFCI, potential transformers
 > are expensive and hard to find. Probably wouldn't
 > be too hard to find what you're looking for on
 > Ebay. If you ballasted/variac'd a bigger one, it might
 > still be eligible for the lower power class
 > competition.
 >
 > --- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
 >  > Original poster: "Karl Lindheimer by way of Terry
 >  > Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <karl-at-coolbluesky-dot-com>
 >  >
 >  > Ed,
 >  >
 >  > Thanks for the name of the distributor.  I had tried them, but got a
 >  > run-around about needing to be a licensed electrician or sign shop.   I
think
 >  > Dan is right about everyone being scared of liability issues.  Imagine
the
 >  > day that Home Depot stops selling wire because someone 'might' get hurt
 >  > working with it.  The days of buying NST's openly may soon be over.
 >  >
 >  > frustrated coiler in NJ
 >  >
 >  > Karl
 >  >
 >  >
 >  > On May 10, 2003 13:25, Tesla list wrote:
 >  >  > Original poster: "Edward Wingate by way of Terry Fritz
 >  >  > <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <ewing7-at-rochester.rr-dot-com>
 >  >  >
 >  >  > Tesla list wrote:
 >  >  >  > Original poster: "Karl Lindheimer by way of Terry Fritz
 >  >  >
 >  >  > <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <karl-at-coolbluesky-dot-com>
 >  >  >
 >  >  >  > Hi all,
 >  >  >  >
 >  >  >  > I have been having a very hard time finding a new France 4020SE
open
 >  >  >  > frame NST.  It is rated for 4 KV at 20 ma.  I wanted to
incorporate it
 >  >  >  > into a mini-coil for Gary Laus' competition at laushaus-dot-com.  I
ended up
 >  >  >  > building the coil and entering it under catagory II instead.  If
anyone
 >  >  >  > knows a good source for these little NST's, please post it.  I've
tried
 >  >  >  > all of the East Coast France distributors.
 >  >  >  >
 >  >  >  > Regards,
 >  >  >  >
 >  >  >  > Karl