Re: Question on Transformers

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <A123X-at-aol-dot-com>

Is the arc a violet color type color as apposed to an orangy or yellowy color?
Does it make weird hissing type noises? If you answered those yes then perhaps
its a high frequency output like a flyback gives and would need to be rectified
to high voltage DC on the output. 

Mark 

In a message dated 10/31/01 12:01:03 AM Eastern Standard Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
writes: 


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> Hello.   
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>    I am new to coiling, and I am looking to build a small coil first.  I 
> looked to my high school physics department today.  They have an unlabeled 
> transformer that takes D.C. and makes it A.C.  I put 7 volts at 3 amps into 
> it and the resulting voltage was able to jump a 1cm-2cm air gap.  I am 
> assuming it produces over 3,000 volts because of the dielectric break-down of
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> air.  My problem lies in the fact that I do not know the cycles per second or
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> even the exact voltage it produces.  I was wondering if perhaps there were a 
> few assumptions I could make to determine the capacitor size I would need for
>
> the TC.  Thank you very much for your time. 
>
> ~Alex 
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