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Re: coil running of car battery(s)?
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- Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:59:36 -0700
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Original poster: "Jim Lux" <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> >12V battery, inexpensive inverter, neon sign transformer, TC
>
> I thought of that, but is the battery enough to run the coil for a few
> hours at least?
> Which is why I think I need to make a pretty small one to make it work.
Standard car battery sized battery is about 50-100 Ah. That's somewhere
around a kilowatt hour, so you could run a 400 W NST for 2 hrs.