RE: shunts

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Original poster: "Ross Overstreet by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <ross-o-at-mindspring-dot-com>

Hi Jeff,
I have quite a bit of info on hotrodding a NST on my page.  I have some
juicy pictures as well as test data.  Here is a direct link to the subpage:
http://users.better-dot-org/roverstreet/projects/ac_coil/psu.html

Note that I am running my NST dry and I highly discourage anyone from doing
this.  Mine should be dead from thermal overload.  I frequently get the
frame much hotter than 100C.  I can't seem to kill it no matter how hard I
try :-)  I purposely left it dry because my goal was to make the smallest,
lightest coil at the SoCal Teslathon 2000 that could do 5 ft arcs.  I
figured it would eventually burn out and force me to start running a pig or
PT...  I recently got 6 ft arcs out of it while visiting the TCBFW guys.

Seeya,
Ross-O


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Subject: shunts


Original poster: "cougercat by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>"
<felix1063-at-home-dot-com>

Hello Group,

Does anybody have a photo of the transformer "shunts" that can be removed
for
greater power?

Thanks

--jeff