Voltage & Current..

From: Joe R. <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Thu Jan 29 15:18:53 2004

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?)

   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
Received on Thu Jan 29 2004 - 15:18:53 GMT

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