Re: MOTs and ballasting

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Original poster: "colin.heath4 by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <colin.heath4-at-ntlworld-dot-com>

hi there,
             mots are ballasted just the same as nst's they use shunts.
they are not ballasted so low as nst,s but will stop at a set current draw.
cheers
colin


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Subject: Re: MOTs and ballasting


 > Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<Tesla729-at-cs-dot-com>
 >
 > In a message dated 4/19/03 8:18:51 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
 > tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:
 > >Just a thought,  MOTs themselves are current limited to some degree by
the
 > >shunts in them.  Do you suppose that we could run without a ballast, and
 > >get whatever the MOTS will dish out (probably no more than 6kva)?
 >
 >
 > Hi Steve,
 >
 > You can run the MOTs unballasted externally but only if you submerge them
 > in oil, otherwise they'll overheat and burn up fairly quickly. As you
said,
 > they
 > are somewhat internally ballasted theirselves but not like an NST or OBIT.
 >
 > < Im looking forward to some 10-12 footers ;)
 >
 > < Steve Ward.
 >
 >  >From what others are claiming, you may be able to obtain that, though
 > I would personally opt for the "6 pack" MOT  (that's 6 MOT's in series)
 > if my spark length aspirations were that high.
 >
 > Sparking in Memphis,
 > David Rieben
 >
 >
 >