Re: MOT-powered coil questions

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Original poster: "Steve K by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <teslainnovations-at-yahoo-dot-com>

Captain, In regards to the last email...

 > I disagree whole heartedly.  Even 3kVAC is enough
 > for a reliable spark-gap
 > driven tesla coil.  Plus many of us, Ed Wingate,
 > Steve Ward, Gary Lau, and
 > others have built
 > very successful tesla coils utilizing only 4kVAC
 > transformers.  Theres more
 > than enough margin for reliable operation.
 >
 > The Captain "...

While Steve Ward has made a very nice 142 watt mini
coil with a 4 thousand volt transformer, and others
with other succesful low voltage designs, does this
hold up for higher currents? Are these designs(
besides Ward's) high current? The 6,000 watt MOT coil
I was working on with Steve Ward had serious quenching
trouble even at 8Kv... at least when operating with
our sucker gap. My advice, like I said before, is to
go with higher voltage...


Steve K.






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