Jay, You can series the Pts. What are they rated at?You still need a ballast. The Pts will try to draw unlimited current, until they exceed the capacity of your generator. If you are lucky, the generator output breaker will below before the generator is trashed. The generator is not a current limited supply. The 5.5 KVA rating only indicates what it can supply safely, for an extended period.
I would not use a modern generator to drive a TC. It is likely to have sensitive electronic regulator and control circuitry on it which will not do well in a TC environment. Perhaps a WWII vintage copper and iron monster might do OK, but not a modern device.
Dave On 7/29/2013 12:13 PM, jhowson4@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hello all, First off, If I have a matched pair of potential transformers. Can I series them up provides the phases are properly matched? Im confident the answer is yes, but just checking. Secondly we have a hefty generator, 5.5 Kva I think. It's rather new, and I don't want to kill it. What's everyones opinion on using it to drive a coil? Since it is only 5.5 Kva will it limit it self to the max current. And would a ballast for my pts still necessary. My inclination says, no and yes. But it would be convienient if I didn't need a ballast, so im asking. Cheers John "Jay" Howson IV
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