Re: Fried Primary Transformer??

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Original poster: backley@xxxxxxxxxxx 

Don't feel to badly, I made this mistake 3 times in four hours, frying
223$ in NSTs
Experience
Backley@xxxxxxxxxxx

----- Original Message -----
From: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, May 27, 2006 10:46 pm
Subject: Re: Fried Primary Transformer??
To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx

> Original poster: Mddeming@xxxxxxx
>
> In a message dated 5/27/06 5:34:46 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
> Original poster: "Victor Valencia" <victor_valencia2@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> I was trying to tune the spark gap
> by sequentially increasing the total
> gap.  I disconnected/removed the secondary coil
> before starting.  Eventually there
> was a spark that jumped between the primary
> and the safety rail (goes to ground) but
> I forgot to connect the ground wire
> and it was connected to the primary case
> only.  Now nothing happens when I turn
> it on.  Did I fry my primary transformer??
>
> Victor
>
>
>
> Ay-yuh, 99.9% chance
>
> Matt D.
>
>