Original poster: "resonance" <resonance@xxxxxxxxxxxx>Their normal duty cycle is to light the pilot light in your oil burner or gas stove. They typically fire for 1 sec and then turn off. They are reasonably robust and could perhps handle the typical 1-2 minutes per cycle of Tesla coil duty service. 100% duty cycle would be pushing them. 10-20% more reasonable.
Dr. Resonance
I scrounged up an old OBIT (10kV, 22mA), and it is electrically sound. What I am wondering is, what is the normal duty cycle for these things.I know that NSTs are not designed to hold a high voltage for a length of time longer than it takes to initiate the arc, but what about OBITs? Are they designed to be at their full rated voltage for duty times?Thanks for any insight into this, Jon