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I'll have to leave this one alone for now while I build more coils for a proper demonstration.
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Will return later.
Okay, to get 1200 VAC from wall-power-certified transformers:
Take several or many and wire them in series. Both the primary and secondary coils. All in series. This effectively increases the overall coil resistance and reduces average voltage across each coil turn in the whole string. Easy.
I hadn't thought of that until I remembered my electronics classes in high school. From decades ago. And I only now returned to simple experimentation, especially with high voltage. It slipped my mind 'til now.
Will return later with experimental results on this thread subject.
Okay, here they are:I took 5ea. 273-1365's (12 VAC, .45 A), 1ea. 273-1366 (25.2 VAC, .45 A) and 2ea. 273-1511's (12.6 VAC, 3A) and wired all in series, with primaries to primaries and secondaries to adjacent secondaries. Secondary coils had an average of 15 VAC across their entire lengths. 1200 VAC on the wall-side primaries from one side to the other.
Two 6 Watt fluorescent tubes were lit to less-than-full brightness. One tube by itself was fully pretty much fully luminous; having 1200 V across the whole tube length.
Adding 2000 VDC of non-polarized, 4ea. ceramic capacitors (#272-131) to one side of the tube(s) did nothing.
Adding 2ea. toilet tube inductor coils (~85 turns total) to the setup immediately above caused the tubes to brighten slightly. This was either with or without a piece of 3/8"dia. , 3" long rebar laying lengthwise in the tubes. No difference in brightness with the rebar.
If the tubes were paralleled, only one would light, and that was to full brightness. With or without capacitors/inductors in series. Same brightness.
Reedit, same day:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMbiOK85Aqk(Output measurements based on the electrical characteristics of a 500 Watt incandescent bulb; which lights to about 1/2 brightness---getting too hot to touch in the process---and also consuming 14 mW at the output, as measured in resistance of the filament. I'll try and look at the video again later.
NEXT:Put 4 or 5ea. 500 Volt capacitors in series at each side of the the transformer outputs, so as to simulate a Tesla hairpin circuit.
--Lee
Reedit: 18 Aug '11: Appended test results to previous post with self-corrected spelling and punctuation editing.
Later added a video link describing output measurements of a hairpin circuit on same day.