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Need plans for 16kv .50amp transformer, please.

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coppercone2:
i think you need a cage room with interlocks and a remote property for this kind of thing. like the geek group used to have this setup for the thumper

i think the authorities would want to bust that just for the news paper picture of a gigantic arc machine with some cops in front

teslaman:
Yes, exactly, 30 amps. I don't mess around. My current one uses four 15,000v 60ma neon sing transformers and is just flat scary, this will be my masterpiece.

Illusionist:
That might well be your epitaph too!

Still, I would love to see the thing fire up, from a distance.

teslaman:
I have seen them three times this size, if I had the property to build a barn and $10,000 to spend on copper wire, that would not be out of the question either. I had to disconnect all the power lines on one side of my garage to run my current one. You should see arcs flowing through an 8"x8".

teslaman:
It will be about 35lbs. of EI laminates, I will just build a spool out of cardboard and wind the coils on my 16"x72" south bend lathe, I have it setup with a variable frequency drive with a foot pedal. Makes it nice for winding 1200 wraps of 24ga wire on a 4" secondary coil. Looking at about 80 dollars in iron core, and probably three times that in copper. Well under $800, and much tidier. I just built a 2 volt 400 amp transformer for electroplating machined parts. Just the opposite of this one. I may end up buying another industrial tig welder, and scrap it, they would have the perfect cores, might even get lucky and be able to reuse a primary.

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