This is a computer study of NST charging circuits.

Various NSTs were matched with a range of primary capacitance values and the resulting electrical characteristics of the circuit were calculated.

Many thanks to all those that contributed the basic transformer measurements!!  Similar transformers give similar results so I just give typical popular ones here.

The raw data Excel file is here.

The MicroSim model used is here.  Shown is a typical example.  Thanks to Gary Lau for the great static gap simulator!!

15kV - 60mA NST

15kV - 30mA NST

12kV - 30mA NST

9kV - 30mA NST

An interesting 12kV - 120mA transformer was also given by Jon.  Wow! did it take a long time to calculate! ;-))

Cheers,

    Terry  terrellf@uswest.net

9-9-2000