Re: how to caculate wattage of a nst

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Original poster: "Jeremy Scott by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <supertux1-at-yahoo-dot-com>


Depends which side of the NST.

A 15Kv/60mA will give you 900VA =~ 900W
on the secondary, but it'll pull quite
a bit more than that from the wall due
to core losses.

--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
 > Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>
 >
 > Hi Adam,
 >
 > At 08:19 PM 6/5/2003 -0700, you wrote:
 > >how do you figure out the wattage of a nst? Do you
 > just multiply the volts
 > >by the amps?  for some reason this sounded wrong.
 > >Thanks
 > >Adam
 >
 > Yes.  In general just multiplying volts x amps is as
 > close as
 > anything.  There are a lot of "details", but it will
 > be pretty close.
 >
 > Cheers,
 >
 >          Terry
 >
 >