Re: Neon Suitability

["Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>]

Original poster: Brett Miller <brmtesla2-at-yahoo-dot-com> 

Use the filter designed by Terry Fritz.  NST's are a
great way to get started in this hobby.  They always
have been, and probably always will be.

That fact aside, design your power supply around your
intended application.


--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
 > Original poster: "john cooper"
 > <tesla-at-tesla-coil-dot-com>
 >
 > Regarding neon transformers not being suitable for
 > Tesla coils:
 >
 > While they don't have the 'punch' of a pig and are
 > not nearly as rugged, I
 > have never lost a neon as long as I had 500pF to
 > 550pF bypass caps from
 > their hot sides run to ground.  I have only lost a
 > neon when that cap fails
 > and one other time when a local 'expert' (and he was
 > and is) told me I
 > didn't need them (big oops here), so I removed them,
 > respecting this expert
 > advise, ran the coil and promptly lost the
 > transformer.  Could have been
 > carbon tracking on that one, don't know, I just put
 > it back together with a
 > new transformer with the bypass caps.  3 year
 > warrantees on neon
 > transformers make it definitely worth buying new
 > units, see N. Glantz and
 > Sons in Anaheim, CA, probably others offer that same
 > warrantee as well.
 > John
 >
 >
 >
 > Original poster: "makinglightning comcast"
 > <makinglightning-at-comcast-dot-net>
 >
 >  >I still don't think neon xfmrs are built good
 > enough for tesla work.
 >  >
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >



	
		
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