Thanks Ted, yet another thing I forgot to mention. The MOTs have their bottoms removed (open ended cores), so saturation should be pretty much impossible. Tonight I might try and pull three of them out of the oil and disconnect the cores. I'm dreading trying to sand the insulation off the HV wire though.
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From: Tesla <tesla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:02/12/2013 4:59 AM (GMT+10:00)
To: Tesla Coil Mailing List <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [TCML] 3 phase mot dc coil first light
Well Greg looks really good. The machine will be interesting when configured
for full power.
I was not too sure if you gapped your ring up inductors or not but I believe
it is quite important if they will be running more than about 300mA . The
cores saturate quite easily and gapping made a big difference.
In some less than well documented experiments I set up a MOT to measure the
actual inductance as the DC component in the secondary was increased against
various gapping from zero gap thru to about 0.5mm which is why I am sure
gapping is the way to go and to array them up to get the inductance
required. Thanks for the post
Regards
ted in NZ
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From: Greg Peters Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 3:16 AM To: Tesla Coil
Mailing List Subject: [TCML] 3 phase mot dc coil first light
At low power, low coupling and limited tuning.... few gremlins to iron out
though:
Http://www.gregsstuff.co Apologies for the terrible video commentary.
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