Re: [TCML] Overdriving NSTs

[Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Phillip...

200%??  you put 240Vac into it?  ouch  you lucked out this 
time...probably wont be so lucky the next time around...good chance you 
stressed the insulation on the secondaries of the NST ...

Scot D


Phillip Slawinski wrote:

I just hooked my NST up to the Tesla coil and ran it up to full (200%)
voltage.  WOW!   :-D   Three foot sparks, maybe unimpressive to all you 
guys
but for me that's something :)   I haven't made any attempt at tuning 
it, and
I don't have all the parts yet.

My point is that for the short time I overdrove the NST in tesla coil duty
didn't destroy it immediately"

   Doubt very very seriously that the output voltage doubled.  If 
someone had the ambition he could run a curve of output voltage AND LINE 
CURRENT! vs input line voltage up to the input voltage where the core 
saturated.  Runs of a few seconds wouldn't overhead the primary windings 
enough to do damage.  Results would be interesting.  I would think the 
results would be just about universal, for NST's at least, because the 
guys build them for a price and won't waste any money on extra iron or 
turns.

Ed

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