Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Goinbonkers-at-aol-dot-com> Hi, an OBIT is an oil burner ignition transformer. they are usually 10kV and about 23ma output. Mike > > What were "obits" originally used for before their life as a tesla coil > exciter and where did the name "obit" come from? Is it short for something? > >