Thane Heins Perepiteia.

[aether22]

DEAR A22,

HERE IS A COIL THAT I RIGGED UP FOR YOU AND TESTED THIS MORNING.
I CAN SENT IT TO YOU (1 WEEK - 10 DAYS) OR YOU CAN MAKE ONE JUST AS EASILY THAT IS GUARANTEED TO GIVE YOU ACCELERATION.

Thane

Please do send it.

I do not have a clue why my huge (mostly) super neatly wound almost 600 ohm monster fails but since it does I feel little driving me to wind another one as that may fail for the same unknown reason.

Send away, and sure the microwave attempt might work but I would very much like to have a neat single coil that does the job.

My only thought is if you are going to send it, maybe just send a Ryobi 110v 60hz bench grinder, I can't feed it 60hz but the voltage will need to be transformed anyway so it will remove the last possible cause of failure. (I pretty much have the transformer angle covered)

[aether22]

Larry, if you are following me along on the MOT route, I have a few tips.

First as I said by grinding off the weld of at least one side of the I bar you can pry it up and snap the weld on the other side, I'd add though that some won't play that game and require taking the weld off the other side also and then convincing with a hammer

But as for taking an angle grinder to the sides of the E, please ensure you have the transformer securely in a vice and use both hands to hold the grinder.

I broke a wire in the primary (HC) coil by having the angle grinder kick the transformer on to the floor, and minced some wires in the secondary coil when it flipped the transformer. (as for the primary it doesn't matter much as i was able to find one of the wires that were broken was long enough to use as the new end of the coil so it's only a few turns short. As for the secondary coil somehow miraculously the ohm meters still reads the same, but if the worst comes to the worst I will be able to do much the same)

[LarryC]

Larry, if you are following me along on the MOT route, I have a few tips.

Yes, would like too if you have a good source for cheap MOT's. Would appreciate if Luc (the MOT collector man) knows of any.

Thanks,
Larry

[aether22]

Yes, would like too if you have a good source for cheap MOT's. Would appreciate if Luc (the MOT collector man) knows of any.

Thanks,
Larry

Well I rang around appliance repair places, got 2 free ones and another place happy to sell me them for $25 a piece.
I won 2 in online Auctions (not yet picked them up and unless I brick one of these may not need to) for $2 and $10. (both had faults but neither sounded like the HV transformer)

Another is in your kitchen, they are very bad for your health and that has been proven, kill it and use it's parts.

Finally I am not sure if they have them everywhere but in Auckland anyway there are 'inorganics' which is once a year everyone puts out stuff like old electronics, sofas, fridges and other general junk. if you spot one then you can pick up some microwaves. (However when I tried this once I found that the transformers had already been removed by scavengers trying to sell the copper, but still a diode and HV cap if of use possibly, mainly though I was trying to scavenge flybacks at the time)

BTW I have had to stop since my angle grinder has ended up grinding it's self so much that the disk no longer cuts deep enough, so as the disk costs almost as much as a cheapie grinder I may as well get a second one with guard on, makes sense to have one on and one off for when the guard gets in the way.

[hoptoad]

DEAR A22,

HERE IS A COIL THAT I RIGGED UP FOR YOU AND TESTED THIS MORNING.
I CAN SENT IT TO YOU (1 WEEK - 10 DAYS) OR YOU CAN MAKE ONE JUST AS EASILY THAT IS GUARANTEED TO GIVE YOU ACCELERATION.


Thane

Open magnetic interface using heel end core configuration with coil at close end to magnet face.  Looks very familiar to me. That's a hop in the right direction .. KneeDeep