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Re: Current limiting?
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To: tesla-at-grendel.objinc-dot-com
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Subject: Re: Current limiting?
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From: "SROYS" <SROYS-at-radiology.ab.umd.edu>
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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 09:20:10 EDT
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> An inductive load (ballast) is used to limit the
> current without limiting the voltage - uising inductive reactance not
> resistance. This controlls the current into and out of the transformer
> without reducing the voltage - there actually will be a small voltage
> drop across the ballast due to the resistance of the wire.
I think that an inductor does induce a voltage drop that is proportional
to the impedence times the current, in addition to and directly
analogous to the resistive voltage drop, V=I*R.
Steven Roys (sroys-at-radiology.ab.umd.edu)