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Blown Neon transformers
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To: tesla-at-grendel.objinc-dot-com
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Subject: Blown Neon transformers
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From: richard.quick-at-slug-dot-org (Richard Quick)
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Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 21:56:00 GMT
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* Original msg to: Jwatson-at-students.uwf.edu
Quoting Jim Watson <jwatson-at-students.uwf.edu>:
> I completed my large transformer today, and two of the four
> neon transformers went bad after just a few minutes of
> operation. I was using four 15kV neon transformers in
> parallel... The spark gap consists of two cylinder gaps in
> series with a rotary gap.
If you are running a rotary gap on a coil powered by neon sign
transformer you are simply begging the neon to fail.
I don't know how many times I have posted about this:
Neons or other shunt core transformer don't need rotary spark
gaps. By placing a rotary gap on a coil powered with these
transformers you are asking for trouble in the form of a failure.
These transformers actually deliver better performance with high
quality static gaps.
Save the rotary for a pole pig, potential, or plate type power
supply the requires external current limiting.
Richard Quick
... If all else fails... Throw another megavolt across it!
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