2 MOTs in series with resonant cap

This is pretty much the same thing as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ_GdpdkffA but the cores are connected together (so it's in series) and the primaries are still connected in series too. The arcs are about a foot long. The strait copper wire that the arcs are being drawn off of is about 5in long.

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[Hvdavi]

how many caps are u using

[Myke1576]

@Hvdavi I was using one but it died not too long after this video. Using 4 in a series and parallel combination will reduce the stresses put on each cap so they don't die.

[juniortore]

whhh thats it. great job

[Myke1576]

Thanks. :)

[Console880]

Huge arcs! Were the arcs bigger with the MOTs in series or parallel?

[Myke1576]

The arcs were a tiny bit bigger than the ones made by the MOTs in parallel. These MOTs weren't arranged in the common way that people do so the output of both MOTs was the same as just one MOT.

[Myke1576]

Yes it is too bright for the camera because you can see the columns of pixels of the CCD saturating but I don't think that makes the arc appear more blue. You can see the blue from the reflection on the wall so I doubt that part would appear to bright for the camera.

[438426x1]

its blue cause its too bright for the camera.

normally its yellow

[Myke1576]

It might just be the camera seeing it as blue. I haven's looked at the arc without eye protection because i don't want to damage my eyes. The sunglasses I was wearing at the time blocked a lot of UV so it might have also blocked some blue too.

[alonsopf]

Why arc is blue?