Re: MOT-PSU

[FutureT-at-aol-dot-com (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

In a message dated 8/20/00 9:56:38 AM Pacific Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes:

> 
>  These results were very dissapointing indeed for my application, 
>  but now I've a much better feeling what's possible with MOTs and 
>  what's not.
>  
>  Regards
>  
>  Herwig 

Herwig,

You can remove the shunts either completely or partially to get
more current.  The MOT's will tend to saturate though, and give
a spikey current waveform.  I found this to be good though in a
way, because it made the sparks stay "on" for a shorter time,
and actually seemed to draw less current overall, and gave
straighter pointier sparks.

Cheers,
John Freau