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Re: [TCML] Power supply question



Hi Paul,

Probably... however, you may want to connect a small low pass filter (HV capacitor across your HV power source and a tiger stripe HV resistor or a 100W+ wirewound HV resistor in series with the Marx HV input) to prevent high voltage transients from backing up and killing your HV power supply. As you likely already know, Marx generators love to kill nearby electronic devices, including the charging source.

Bert

PAUL THOMPSON wrote:
Now there's an interesting notion. I do have a modest Marx generator I charge with a small 7.5KV ion generator. You think this new type neon transformer would work with it?

Paul


----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Hall" <brianh4242@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 4:23 PM
Subject: RE: [TCML] Power supply question




Well, if you want to get lots of big loud sparks from it, maybe you could get a bunch of caps and resistors and use it to power a small Marx generator?

---------------------------------- Brian Hall





From: mrapol@xxxxxxxxxxx
To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [TCML] Power supply question
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:37:52 -0400

Yeah, I went to the Ventex website soon after posting and found out the
awful truth. Oh well.

Thanks,

PBT

----- Original Message ----- From: "Lau, Gary" <Gary.Lau@xxxxxx>
To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 11:44 AM
Subject: RE: [TCML] Power supply question


The full spec sheet is at http://www.ventextech.com/pdf/GenIIIBrochure.pdf

I'm afraid that your fears are correct - this is a high frequency (20KHz)
unit and is unsuitable for powering a Tesla coil.

Sorry!

Gary Lau
MA, USA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of PAUL THOMPSON
> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 11:18 AM
> To: Tesla Coil Mailing List
> Subject: [TCML] Power supply question
>
> A casual friend of mine, knowing my interests, gave me a neon power > supply > he didn't need any more. It's a Ventex Generation III, rated at 9KV at > 60
> mA. I am wondering if it some kind of solid state device unsuitable for
> coils?
>
> It is marked:
>
> Input 120V 1.8A 50/60 MHz
> High power factor 0.98
> Output- Self Adjusting
> For Line and Load 1-9 kV, 60 mA
> . . .
> Do not mid point ground the load. Complies with secondary ground fault
> protection requirements in UL 2161
> . . .
> Do not connect any part of the output to any grounded metal.
>
> This was a freebie, but I get the feeling it isn't of any use except to
> light up neon.
>
> Paul
>
>
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