Re: NST Shunt Bars

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Original poster: "Joshua Lovato by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <jlovato-at-newmexico-dot-com>

I have a question concerning current-limiting shunts on NSTs. I recently
unpoted my 9/30 transformer and removed the 2 laminations it had for shunts,
but I did not see significant increase in current. Would drilling into the
core shunts, to increase the gap between them, increase the current output?
I have a picture of the transformer at
http://www15.brinkster-dot-com/thebytefiles/nst.html

thanks,
Josh

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Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 7:48 AM
Subject: Re: NST Shunt Bars


> Original poster: "Jan Florian Wagner by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <jwagner-at-cc.hut.fi>
>
> Hi,
>
> > Original poster: "BunnyKiller by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <bigfoo39-at-telocity-dot-com>
> > > Original poster: "Charles Hobson by way of Terry Fritz
> > <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <charles.a.hobson-at-btinternet-dot-com>
> > > I have seen the term "Shunt Bars" mentioned several times by people
> > > disassembling NST. Can some one explain what they are and what their
> purpose
> > > is?
>
> You should note that not all NSTs actually have shunts, so don't be
> surprised if you don't find any. :o)
> Some small NSTs are just wound on a T core inside an U core, and there's
> really no way to get more juice out of these, apart from rewinding, or
> maybe gapping.
>
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