Re: NST current, was Filters & Chokes

[FutureT-at-xxxxxxx (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-xxxxxxxxxx>)]

In a message dated 11/16/00 10:57:08 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:

> Original poster: "Brian" <ka1bbg1-at-mcttelecom-dot-com> 
>  
>  Gary, my old coil with a jefferson used to draw close to15 amps with 
variac.
>  I could pull 16 arc's without a toroid. I also had 2 in sparks jumping
>  across the doorknobs rated at 45kv.. it is also the reason why it went
>  SILENT. oh that was with static gap pulled back to about 3 inches too! I
>  just keept piling up more caps and got more out for a while....cul brian


Brian,

If you didn't use PFC caps on the NST, and if the NST was
not of the PF corrected type, then it would tend to draw a lot
of power no matter what.  I was using PFC on my NST.

JOhn Freau