Re: high voltage power supply on Ebay question (fwd)

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Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 23:06:16 -0400
From: Jack Vandam <snotoir7674g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: high voltage power supply on Ebay question (fwd)

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> Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 10:33:51 -0400
> From: Charles Pike <ctpike@xxxxxxx>
> To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: high voltage power supply on Ebay question (fwd)
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> Jack,
> I bought one of these a while ago.  It is basically a souped up ignition
> coil driven by a light dimmer and capacitor.  You are saying: but that
> will give pulses and not DC and you are right.  The pulses are
> predominantly of one polarity but I think it is highly misleading to
> call it "DC".
> Charlie

Thanks, Charlie.  I thought that it might be something like that.  I
understand that there are certain ignition coils capable of producing close
to 70Kv so it must use one of those.  I nearly bought one of the Ebay
supplies a while back, but wanted to find out about the circuitry first.
Appreciate the info.

Jack