joekbit said:
GotTheBug said:
Just tossing this one out there because it worked on the first test. I built a beast of a deplater out of a modified MOT and 3 automotive rectifiers in parallel. Adjustable voltage on the input side allows me to run 4 volts and somewhere around 100 amps. Not for the feint of heart for sure, but it deplated some gold plated flatware in around 11 seconds, and no for some reason it does not heat up much at all.
I see you custom transformer, looks like 10awg, whats the output? How many wingdings did you do? I;m working on a plasma furnace and your transformer looks like a clone of the one I set up for it, even the wire is the same color. I'm going to check, and see if you stole it from me, :lol:
I only stole it from you if you made all the youtube videos I watched on modifying a MOT.
The wires, if memory serves, are all 6 guage. I wondered how well the rectifiers would work in parallel, but they do an awesome job of handling the amperage. The first thing I did was show the family, then put a 14 gauge wire between the outputs and turn it on, turning the 14 guage into a puff of smoke. Then I said, "never touch this". I've scrapped more MOT's than I care to recollect, but still have an old one that is 4000 volts (as opposed to the usual 2000), sittin on the shelf just begging me to do something cool with it.