Re: Weird safety gap behaviour

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Original poster: "Dr. Resonance" <resonance-at-jvlnet-dot-com> 


With the innermost area of the coil being spaced a distance from the core
the reluctance losses begin to kick in so it can be different.

We took actual measurements from a 12 kV 60 mA NST that was dissassembled.

Dr. Resonance

 >
 >      Shouldn't the Volts/turn theoretically be the same between all
windings,
 > primary and secondary? At 180 turns on the primary, with 120 volts in that
 > gives .66 Volts/turn. I would think the effective volts/turn would be less
 > at the
 > HV secondaries because of shunt losses, etc.
 >      I think it would be interesting, as Ed suggests, to put a test
winding of
 > 5 or so turns around both the primary and secondary cores and see what
 > voltages they put out.
 >      Since the NST's are so strongly ferromagnetic, one could run one with
a
 > switching input using the new test winding like a flyback...
 >
 > -Phil LaBudde
 >
 >
 >