Re: New "MOT" power supplies??

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Original poster: "Jim Mitchell" <Wrenchead-at-starband-dot-net> 

Is that braided wire in the picture the secondary?

Regards - Jim Mitchell
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Subject: RE: New "MOT" power supplies??


 > Original poster: Gregory Hunter <ghunter31014-at-yahoo-dot-com>
 >
 >  >  > I can't imagine those things being useful for TC
 >  > work, at least not for
 >  >  > primary capacitor charging.  Maybe the rectified
 >  > output would be OK for
 >  >  > a DC coil.  I suspect also that the line
 >  > isolation isn't good enough to
 >  >  > allow stacking those things in series.
 >  >  > Ed
 >  >
 >  > I dunno. From the pictures, it looks like the
 >  > transformer has so few turns
 >  > as to be easy to rewind for 2X or 4X the original
 >  > voltage. At that point you
 >  > have an EXCELLENT supply for a DC coil. Plus, a
 >  > little back engineering may
 >  > show an easy way to increase the power. Add a little
 >  > oil bath for the whole
 >  > thing...
 >  > db
 >  >
 >   I agree. Most of us avoid experimenting with big
 > solid state power HV supplies because big ferrite
 > cores are rare and expensive. Cheap microwave ovens
 > may reverse that, to where we have a ready supply of
 > cheap (or free) kilowatt-class ferrite cores from dead
 > ovens.
 >
 >
 > =====
 > Gregory R. Hunter
 >
 > http://hot-streamer-dot-com/greg
 >
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