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Obits - How many are too many???



Original poster: "Paul Kidwell by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tmb-at-ieee-dot-org>

Hi Everybody!

Does anybody have any idea what the largest obit farm anybodies come up with?

I was talking with a guy today that supposedly has boxes filled with 6000V 20mA
Obits. He  said he had no use for them so I told him I'd take them. He
asked how
many I wanted and off the top of my head I just said a dozen. He said "ok" and
he'd bring them by in the next couple of days.

He left one with me. It has a single hi-voltage electrode. I was thinking of
tying pairs back to back for 12000V, then paralleling pairs for whatever
current
I wanted. 12 wired this way would be 12000V at 120mA.

Do you eventually reach a point of diminishing returns???

Let's see.... 50 pairs would be.... 1000 mA output...

Exactly how many could I parallel before it would be better to just haul out my
15KVA pig and current limit it down?

Here's another question, which would perform better, a 15KVA pig current
limited
down with inductive ballasts to 1KVA, or 1KVA worth of Obits???

I'm really wondering how many this guy has :)

Paul
G-5 #11