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Subject: sparks for cheap
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From: Tesla List <tesla@stic.net>
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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 08:44:36 -0500
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From: FutureT@aol.com [SMTP:FutureT@aol.com]
Sent: Monday, August 17, 1998 1:24 PM
To: tesla@pupman.com
Subject: Re: sparks for cheap
In a message dated 98-08-17 14:13:19 EDT, you write:
<< I wired 5 MOT's together in a dual parallel-series arrangement,
> with the primaries in parallel, and the secondaries in series.
> Altogether I was able to generate foot and a half long arcs at 10 kv out of
> the arrangement without the TC assembly. Since my coil isn't running
> correctly, I couldn't tell you how well this would drive a coil, but I
> assume that given good quenching and suitable ballast it might perform
> well. >>snip
Mike, all,
In the past, I've wired 4 MOT's with secondaries in series and obtained
64" sparks. Some corona-sparkling could be seen between the core
and winding on the "outboard" MOT's however, but they held. The
system used a non-sync rotary gap, and a .08uF cap. Without ballasting,
the TC drew about 6kVA. With ballasting, this was cut back to about
4kVA, spark lengths were the same in either case.
John Freau