small valves and RE: OT

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Thursday 28 April 2005 11:46, Wai-Sun Chia wrote:
> On 4/28/05, Patrick Finnegan <pat at computer-refuge.org> wrote:
> > Heh.  About a year and a half ago, I pulled the transformer out of
> > an NMI power supply.  4kV at 1.5A rating.
> >
> > That sucker could blow fuses really well. ;)
>
> Holy moley!! I can imagine... :-)
> Could you please post some pics of this monster? I haven't seen one
> rated this much before...

Unfortunately, I don't have a picture of it, and I got rid of it a while 
ago when moving offices.  It was a black cube roughly 8" on a side, and 
weighed in at 80lbs or so.

I *do* have a few 60mA, 48kV x-ray transformers laying around though.  
Those suckers are heavy (>100lbs).  I made some nice long plasma 
streams with two of them hooked up out-of-phase giving me a >120kV peak 
voltage, before I melted a current-limiting inductor in one.  At some 
point, I need to rewind that coil (it's only got one layer, so it'll be 
easy to do once i get some magnet wire).

Pat
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