Subj : NASA, shuttle, anyone?
To   : WAYNE CHIRNSIDE
From : Roy J. Tellason
Date : Sun Aug 21 2005 05:59 am

WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote in a message to MARK LEWIS:

 WC> I just took a TV flyback and made an external 8 turn winding center
 WC> tapped and drove it with a push - pull oscillator made with hefty
 WC> TO-3 transistors.
 WC> Ran at about 20KHz and drew 10 - 11 amps at 12 volts.

That just seems awfully inefficient,  though...

 WC> Got the idea from a books by a company still on the web I believe
 WC> at www.amazing1.com IIRC

That's a good site,  still.

 WC> Odd bunch of stuff there, much plausably works, of many I'm
 WC> dubious. 

Looking at their page,  I can see what you mean there.

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