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Re: Strange Current Flow



hi it sounds like whatshappening is the coil is placing alarge draw on your
tranny so the current draw will go from low to infinity
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To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Date: Monday, February 28, 2000 4:24 AM
Subject: Strange Current Flow


>Original Poster: "ross andrews" <sflourine-at-home-dot-com>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I wired an ammeter up to my coil today, and something strange happens -
> The tranny (a 15 kV, 25 mA NST), draws about 3A on the primary when
>shorted, but when used in my coil, the meter jumps from 3 to 5A,
>sometimes even going off the scale of the thing.  Since the NST is
>current limiting by itself, the only thing I can think of is that
>perhaps only actual power is limited by the NST, and at times a large
>reactive component is induced somewhere, allowing the NST to spit out
>more current as purely reactive power.
>
> Any comments apprecitated,
>
> Ross
>