Re: MOT Shunts?

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Original poster: Mddeming@xxxxxxx 

Hi Professor,

My experience with MOTs is that they have limited shunting to provide 
some measure of protection from problems that usually occur in 
Microwave ovens. They are pretty useless in TC or other applications. 
Best to treat them as unballasted.

Matt D.

P.S. There was a Paul Scheinberg a year behind me at Stuyvesant, who 
went into medicine. Any relation?

>Original poster: norman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I have read several web sites about MOTs and tesla coils.  From these sites I
>have gathered that MOTs do not have shunts.  That is why they need to be
>balasted.  Now I am reading all these posts about removing MOT 
shunts.  What's
>going on?
>
>I have built a tesla coil but it uses an NST.  I have not seen a
>MOT, so I have
>no first hand knowledge of their construction.
>
>The information that I have read on this list over the last few
>months has been
>invaluable in getting my coil to work. Thanks,
>
>Prof. Norm Scheinberg, City College of New York, EE Dept.