That certainly does ensure no saturation I recall that with a 0.3 mm gap
saturation was moved out to about 1 amp in the secondary. Even then not
really saturated but beginning to curve off a straight line
Should be easy to solder that inner, just cut off at the lug , wipe with
alcohol and use a hot iron, good luck
ted in NZ
-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Peters
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 11:16 AM
To: Tesla Coil Mailing List
Subject: Re: [TCML] 3 phase mot dc coil first light
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.