29 Jan
2004
29 Jan
'04
7:30 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe R." <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 4:18 PM
Subject: RE: Voltage & Current..
I believe that they're AT LEAST 1 Amp ON THE 3kV SIDE! The neon sign
manufacturer's use them to step the 240 back up to 2 or 3 kV at 1 Amp to
burn the gasses out of the glass walls of tubes that they use to make neon
signs with. They run them at ~1 Amp for 24 hours and the tubes are almost
white hot.
Joe
Funny, All the glass/quarts tubes I have seen don't glow any color even when
melting.
At 12:02 PM 1/29/04 -0800, you wrote:
>> > I think perhaps it's best for Lyos to maintain his present beliefs
about
> voltage and current. Over time I'm sure
he'll collect more empirical
> data to either confirm or deny his hypothesis (though quite likely at
> some cost if he's as stubborn in his beliefs as I suspect the case to
> be).
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
In other words, blows himself up with a
3kV-to-240v electricity pole
transformer?
Would that damage the transformer? (how many amps are those?)