Re: LC filter adequate?

• To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
• Subject: Re: LC filter adequate?
• From: Gavin Hubbard <ghub005-at-xtra.co.nz> (by way of Terry Fritz <twf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 12:18:22 -0700
• Approved: twf-at-verinet-dot-com

At 10:58 PM 12/20/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Original Poster: Doug Brunner <dabrunner-at-earthlink-dot-net> 
>
>I'm building a .88 kVA coil with a set of neons as a power source (one
>7.5/60, one 7.5/35, one 7.5/18, with the two small ones in parallel, and
>the big one in series with them). 

This is not a good idea. Since the NSTs are centre-tapped to ground,
connecting them in series will put several thousand volts across their
cases. From a safety point of view, you would be better to use a single
15kV/60mA NST.

Safe coiling,

Gavin Hubbard

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