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Re: Tesla Coil - Internal Arcing on Secondary
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- Subject: Re: Tesla Coil - Internal Arcing on Secondary
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- Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:28:43 -0600
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Original poster: Brady Hauth <bhauth@xxxxxxxxx>
> > I'm confused to what the 7 stage marx generator is doing???
It increases the MOT's 2kv to ~13kv, depending on spark gap spacing.
> I used a 2-stage modified Marx to double the voltage of a
> beefy 7.5kV transformer once to run a Tesla coil. The Marx caps
> doubled as the primary caps and the circuit effectively had three
> gaps in series. The Marx bit used chokes as charging elements rather
> than resistors.
I'm doing exactly the same thing, except with a MOT and 7 stages, and
instead of "real" chokes I drilled out the secondary on transformers.
Ah the joys of low-budget high voltage. :-)
Anyway, I'm still looking for ideas on how to stop the arcing.