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

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

Huh...got your reply before my own post, hehe...
Unfortunately, the latch on the toaster doesn't seem to engage properly when it's starved for power, so at anything short of "well-done" I have to hold the handle down :)) Oh well!
Made my first eBay purchase today: Two more MOTs! My wife's going to kill me when she sees this new beast slowly coming to life :) 

See ya!

Safe TC'ing,
-Alex


From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Thanks - Re: Saturable Reactor Ballast from MOT's
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 14:37:08 -0700

Original poster: "J. Aaron Holmes" <jaholmes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

(Doh!  Hit the reply button too quickly
there--shouldn't try this on my wife's laptop)

Sounds terrific!  Now you'll be able to vary the
doneness with much finer granularity than
raw/medium/well-done :-))

Regards,
Aaron, N7OE

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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...

>
>     How about an electric iron or heater as a test
> load?
>
> Ed
>