Re: MOT life expectancy in a TC

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Original poster: "Gregory Hunter by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <ghunter31014-at-yahoo-dot-com>

I've been running MOTs for a long time, and I've never
had one fail.  My best ever MOT power supply was two
matched units in antiparallel with their cores
grounded, and two voltage doublers.  This thing pushed
48 to 60 inch streamers out of my 4" x 24" coil.  You
may study my primitive psu design at:

www.angelfire-dot-com/ga3/tesla

Cheers,

Greg

--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
> Original poster: "sundog by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <sundog-at-timeship-dot-net>
> 
> 
>  Hi all,
> 
>   After looking over a few pages and the archives on
> using MOTs for the tank
> tranny (I'm referring to paired mots for 8kv or so),
> using doublers and
> whatnot.
> 
>  You have to admit it's a really potent little
> tranny in a small space.  The
> voltage doublers bring them up to our "normal"
> voltage range, and their
> current makes them simply little monsters.  But how
> long do the last in this
> useage?  How often do you MOT-o-philes burn up a
> MOT-based tank tranny?  How
> many MOT users run RSG's on their setup?
> 
>   Once you get the powerarcing under control, a MOT
> seems to perform just as
> well as a PT.  Aside from the difficulty of finding
> 2 matched MOTs, what
> other problems are there?
> 
> 											Shad
> PS, the List seems oddly quiet this last week or so
> 
> 
> 


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