Re: Idea for Powering up coil

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Original poster: "Jason Petrou by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jasonp-at-btinternet-dot-com>

Patrick,
Sure, if you can be bothered to re-wire it every time you want to power up
your coil!!! it will work but is your time really worth it??? If you are
going to take this approach, find the neon that you are most likely to use
(I would imagine the one with the highest VA rating), then set up a common
neutral and use a switch to switch between your different LV xfmrs and pure
mains voltage... that way you can have a virtual variac with lots of
different V settings. However I would seriously reccommend getting a variac
because they are THE MOST USEFUL tools in the world of coiling - the amount
of equipment and time I have saved by using a variac is phenomenal.

Anyway have fun wiring up your controller and send me some pics when you get
them :) Keep us informed...

Best R,
Jason
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Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 2:12 PM
Subject: Idea for Powering up coil


> Original poster: "Patrick Bloofon by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <transactoid-at-home-dot-com>
>
> I don't have a variac and I don't see myself buying one any time soon. So,
I
> thought of another way I could apply power to my coil without going
full-on
> right away.
>
> I have several NSTs, ranging from 9kv - 15kv. I also have several small AC
> xfrmrs, from about 20v to 60v. What if I used various combinations of
these
> to provide a lower power for testing my TC? I could hook the 20v output
into
> my 9kv NST and get around 1,500v, or I could use my 60v and get about
> 4,500v.....and so on and so forth.
>
> Short of buying a variac, does this sound reasonable?
>
>
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