Re: ballast are bogus!!! (fwd)

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Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 08:40:42 -0500
From: Harold Weiss <hweiss@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: ballast are bogus!!! (fwd)

Hi Daryl,

Careful doing that or the next thing that may be smoking will be the house 
wiring.  Check to see that it's not overloading the breaker.  I have seen 
breakers weld themselves shut leaving only the mains breaker as the only 
cutoff.

If you are really using a pig, you would have more than likely blown the 
mains breaker.  Current would have been in the hundreds of amps range.

David E Weiss
>
> hello!!
>
>  so i built a telsa coil last year?  after lots of mesing around with it 
> it work pretty good, like 6' sparks!  i now sure wish taht i knew about 
> you guys first!
>
>  it has 950 turn secondaryand a 10 turn primary coil, made out of old 
> welding cable.  the 'pole pig' (heh) is 220volt and runs off the welding 
> outlet from the dryer in the garage.  i have an old SKIL saw with a 10" 
> beam blade that work great for the rotary gap but the blade is good for 
> only mabye 5 runs.
>
>  but the website plans say to always use a 'ballast' like an old stick 
> welder, with a pole pig.  so i did? but now the welder started smoking a 
> little bit, because it was already very old.
>
>  so, i got mad and just took the welder out of the circuit. and guess 
> what?? the coil works  even better!!!  it arcs way longer, and you can't 
> even looka t the SKIL saw anymore while its running!  the pole pig makes 
> the hummy hummy thumpy sound too so now i guess its finally doing some 
> work.
>
>  so the whole ballast thing is a joke? i dont know what they were on when 
> they said that.
>
>
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