RE: Neon Shunts & PSSTC Components

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Original poster: "john cooper" <tesla-at-tesla-coil-dot-com> 

Regarding shunts in the neon xfrs, I was recently told by another coiler 
that he took a 15kV, 60mA Franceformer, de-potted it, and removed ALL of 
the shunts!  It kicked a** and required no external reactor per his 
reporting.  Has anyone else tried this?  As I'm about ready to put a half 
dozen of these in the sun for 6+ hours prior to using a chisel to remove 
the cases for freezer time to remove the majority of the asphalt and then 
into the oven, I am fairly interested.  I have completely dismantled one 
for thorough cleaning, taking care to keep the plates in order, before 
re-assembly, leaving out 7 or 8 of the shunts to up the ampherage but have 
never considered removing them all.  Also, anyone have any hi-voltage 
windings for this transformer?  A few spares always makes me feel better.

FWIW - Regarding the PSSTC's, I've been accumulating the components and 
have the majority of them in stock and am always up to discussing trades, 
whatcha got?

http://www.tesla-coil-dot-com/ForSale.htm

John F. Cooper
Irvine, CA
www.Tesla-Coil-dot-com
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