Re: Thanks - Re: Saturable Reactor Ballast from MOT's

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Original poster: "Alex Kardash" <voltamp1@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Yeah, I realized this myself shortly after sending
that.  I tried using a four-slice toaster as a load
and ran it up to about 8A.  I let it go about 30
seconds and didn't notice any real heating of the
MOTs.  Longer test runs to follow...

> From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Thanks - Re: Saturable Reactor Ballast from MOT's
> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:33:20 -0700
>
> Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Original poster: "Alex Kardash" <voltamp1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> We should congratulate Aaron also, from whom the recipe for a 
> dual-MOT ballast originated week on hvlist (actually, Carl did 
> mention that below, but I thought I should point it out again for 
> posterity's sake :))
>
> http://www.pupman.com/hvlistarchives/2006/Feb/msg00003.html
>
> Anyway, thanks to both Carl and Aaron for giving me something to do 
> tonight :D  I just tried this with two *similar* MOTs, having the 
> same rated voltage and power capacity, and it appeared to work out 
> ok for a relatively small load (about 3A).  Unfortunately, I'm an 
> NST coiler and hadn't done anything with these MOTs until tonight, 
> so I'm struggling to find a larger load to play with!  Where's a 
> third MOT when you need one?!  Time to go to eBay, methinks...
>
> Safe TC'ing,
> -Alex"
>
>    How about an electric iron or heater as a test load?
>
> Ed