Re: Bombarder Controls

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• Subject: Re: Bombarder Controls
• From: open_minded <bturner-at-apc-dot-net>
• Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 00:45:38 -0800

Tesla List wrote:
> 
> >From gowin-at-epic-1.nwscc.sea06.navy.milMon Nov 25 11:05:17 1996
> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 08:40:38 -0500
> From: Dan Gowin <gowin-at-epic-1.nwscc.sea06.navy.mil>
> To: Tesla List <tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>
> Subject: Re: Bombarder Controls
> 

<snip>

> What is the above Transco "Super Choke". What
> is it? How does it work? Does anybody have a circuit diagram? And
> would a homemade version of this device make a good replacement for
> the Arc welders some coilers use?
> 
> Tesla coiler at large.
> D. Gowin


Dan - 

  It's called a saturable reactor. As the description implies, you use
a DC current source to "pre-load" the flux in the core of the inductor.
Ergo, the AC current flowing through the same core is limited.

- brent

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