Re: Dan's coil

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Subject: Re: Dan's coil
From: mrbarton-at-ix-dot-netcom-dot-com (Mark Barton)
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 04:46:17 -0800
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Dan,

>
>PVC is lossy and not recommended.
>
>
>---> What material should I use and where can it be obtained?
>
Acrylic tube works well.  You can get it from a plastics supply house.  Look 
around in a household supply place for a polyethylene waste basket of 
correct proportions.  They're everywhere once you start looking.

>>Main Transformer:
>
>---> No, the transformer is not self limiting.
>
You will require inductive/resistive balast in series with the low voltage 
side.  TC's are veritable short circuits in operation.  People on this list 
like things such as oven elements and arc-welder primaries (with shorted 
secondaries) for balast components.

>
>>.025uf CAP:

>---> I am not sure what the dielectric is.  It is in a rectangular metal
>case with a huge ceramic insulator coming out of the top center.
>
Well, just try it out and see.  Monitor the capacitor case frequently for 
heat.  Be sure and discharge it thoroughly first.

Zap,
Mark