Re: the slide choke of wonder!

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Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>

I assume the other steel rods are painted or otherwise insulated?

You could replace the threaded rod with something that's an insulator.. 
fiberglass rod (i.e. fishing pole or kite stick) comes to mind.

At 05:10 PM 6/30/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>Original poster: "J Dow by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
><jdowphotography-at-hotmail-dot-com>
>
>Hello all
>So I got this slide choke inductive ballast. During tonight’s 5 minute 
>Jacobs ladder test
>running my 15/60 nst… yes the core did heat up.
>But only the threaded rod that the steel rods are bundled around got hot. 
>And not even that hot. A very extended run (say 15min) might heat it up a 
>lot. But then it would take more time to heat the HOLE core. Under a much 
>greater load to the core will obviously heat up faster but this still 
>needs to be tested as to how fast.
>So far so great
>Still love this thing!
>Read you later
>Josh