Re: MOT's

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <A123X-at-aol-dot-com>

I want to get around 16amps from the mains to the P.Supply, since I'm using a 
480watt angle grinder for the spark gap. The big ones will draw too much, I 
guess the small one will give me close to that but probably too low. I heard 
that making a proper gapped ballast works more efficiently any way. 

Mark 


In a message dated 6/19/01 10:55:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes: 


>
> Hi whoever you are, 
>
> You don't need to chop up a MOT to make a ballast. take one, short the 
> secondary, and put it in series with two other MOTs in parallel. All you 
> need is another MOT to have 2 ballasted 4kV pairs. 
>
> Matt Shayka