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Re: NST Depotting Experience +



Original poster: bartb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Hal,

I couldn't answer that as I haven't ever had one of these. It seems to me
that it should be easy to remove the fault circuit if the potting was
removed. Maybe others have already performed that task?

Take care,
Bart

> Original poster: "Krohns" <2halice@xxxxxxx>
>
> I have access to a large pile of relatively new defective FranceFormers
> that
> have the ground fault circuitry.  Sounds like I should be able to remove
> the
> ground fault junk and the transformers would probably work fine again.  Am
> I
> thinking correctly?
>
> Hal from Tucson
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 4:18 PM
> Subject: Re: NST Depotting Experience +
>
>
>  > Original poster: bartb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  >
>  > Hi Gary,
>  >
>  > Yes, I mentioned that in the write up of the experience. But, my
> decision
>  > to repot was more for the experience (since I hadn't tried it before).
>  >
>  > Take care,
>  > Bart
>  >
>  >  > Original poster: gary350@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  >  >
>  >  > Most of the time when you kill a neon it is just shorted through the
>  >  > tar.  Once you get an arc through the tar you have a perment carbon
>  >  > track for it to arc over and over every time you turn on the neon
>  >  > again.  Usually all that is needed is to melt the tar, stir the tar
>  >  > around a little bit, let it cool, and it will work fine again.   You
>  >  > can mix in 50% high voltage oil into the tar then pour it back into
>  >  > the metal neon case and let it cool.  The HV oil + tar is a big
>  >  > inprovement over just tar alone.
>  >  >
>  >  > Gary Weaver
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  > -----Original Message-----
>  >  >  >From: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
>  >  >  >Sent: May 10, 2006 9:05 AM
>  >  >  >To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
>  >  >  >Subject: NST Depotting Experience
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  >Original poster: "Barton B. Anderson" <bartb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  >Hi All,
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  >I mentioned during a separate thread that I had killed my 12/60
> NST.
>  >  >  >So, I went through a depotting experience (my first). I wrote up
> this
>  >  >  >experience. I thought those who are in the middle of such an
>  >  >  >experience or are thinking about it might enjoy this read.
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  >http://www.classictesla.com/photos/nstrepair/nstrepair.htm
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  >It really wasn't that bad of an experience and the results were
>  >  > well worth it.
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  >Take care,
>  >  >  >Bart
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