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today i got around to making my quad mot bank and i have one question. should i disconnect the one secondary wire from the core on the 2 mots that are going to be grounded The 2nd mot that is in series with the 1st mot im already going to disconnect the hv lead from the core but i dont know if i should do it to the first mots and the whole setup is going into mineral oil when it is done.
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The inner MOTs should be left unmodified while the outer pairs have the secondary - to - core lead disconnected and re soldered ... this keeps the outer cores floating. Keep the whole unit under transformer oil!!
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I'm just letting my imagination run here but the biggest impediment to using MOT's for some hobbyists is the danger associated with high current (and the lower overall lower voltage output of a single unit). Would it be possible to start with a source of lower current but higher voltage thus retaining a level of comparability to a NST if multiple MOTs were used?
My thought is an input from a disposable camera circuit; keeping the sub-30ma source, and creating a 2-300 volt input to the MOT bank...While I'm sure it's a given that the current will also affect an arc's appearance, (there would not be the same grippingly powerful 'flaming element" to the arc output) but would the use of a proportionately higher voltage (300 instead of the 120 mains) produce a useful effect? Could there be a substitution of useful effect of another source instead of household voltage & current?
And if this would be possible, - if not a disposable camera circuit, would another simple driver circuit be available?
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