Re: On the Trail of a MegaVolt (fwd)

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:47:40 +0100
From: "[iso-8859-1] Kreso" <kreso.bukvic@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: On the Trail of a MegaVolt (fwd)

Hmm. Whenever i try to acess this page my explorer maxes a error.

Best Regards

Kreso Bukvic
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Subject: On the Trail of a MegaVolt (fwd)


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> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 09:58:44 -0600
> From: Carl Litton <Carl_Litton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: On the Trail of a MegaVolt
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> Gentlemen,
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> Our local high voltage group is currently engaged in an ultra-high
> voltage project.  I believe that the controlled generation of a Megavolt
> is possible at the amateur level - not streamers/sparks from a Tesla
> coil - but a real 1 million volts output from a specially constructed
> power supply that can be operated without overheating (or blacking out
> the neighborhood). 
> 
> To this end, we have acquired a large number of megavolt-rated
> transformers.  Rated output at the secondaries is between 0.1 and 0.15
> Megavolt.  We successfully created a control circuit allowing us to run
> a 0.15 Megavolt transformer to dead short or air gap without internal
> arcing or overheating in any part of the circuit for our 8' tall Jacob's
> Ladder this Halloween.  In fact, we were finally able to power it beyond
> its rated output without problems (~0.175 Megavolt):
> 
> Brief synopsis and pictures here:  
> (http://www.dawntreader.net/hvgroup/megavolt.html)
> 
> This preamble brings me to my question that I want to submit for review
> and comment by all the great science available on this list.  Has anyone
> actually used any of the so-called 'stacking techniques' for MOT's that
> are all over the HiV pages on the net but without any real photos of
> such in actual operation?  These techniques purport to allow the
> 'stacking' of notoriously friable MOT's such that 4 to 8 times their
> 2100Volt rated output can be continuously produced without subjecting
> the windings to more than twice their rating.
> 
> One such advises the direct connection of the secondaries of 2 MOT's to
> produce "120 volts which 2100Volts above ground" at the primary of the
> second MOT???  I can't get my mind around this to believe it.  Then the
> technique advises that the primaries of 4 more MOT's may now be
> connected to this output in 'anti-parallel' manner.  What in the world
> is 'anti-parallel?'  Then the secondaries of the 4-pack may be series
> for a usable 8400 volts.  Further, it states a 'mirror image' stack can
> be built and added in series to give twice that voltage.
> 
> This would, of course, be wonderful if it were true.  Since most (~ 60%
> of them) of these megavolt transformers are not center tapped, an MVT
> stack is certainly conceivable following the same concept.
> 
> Please share your thoughts.
> 
> Carl Litton, Director
> Raleigh-Bartlett Science Club
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