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RE: Re: Cascading Transfo
Subject: RE: Re: Cascading Transfo
Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 20:02:45 GMT
From: robert.michaels-at-online.sme-dot-org (Robert Michaels)
Organization: Society of Manufacturing Engineers
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
T>An ideal transformer is a voltage source is it not? Doesn't matter
T>what it's rated at. If you load it up, you blow fuses.
Huh??
An "ideal transformer" (or an un-ideal one for that matter)
is a voltage source =and= a current source !
Every transformer (that ever there was) transforms voltage
=and= current simultaneously.
It is no more correct to think of a transformer as a voltage
source than it is to think of it as a current source.
It is both. Simultaneously. Inextricably.
T> Your point on running 500V into a 120V primary is interesting. I
T>have a beefy transformer producing only 5kV or so on its secondary. I
T>will try doubling its input voltage (while monitoring primary current
T>of course) to see whether the core is sufficient. The insulation
T>easily looks good enough on the secondary side. I had been planning
T>to elevate the secondary voltage by other means but this would be
T>much simpler.
T>Malcolm
T><snip>
I think you'll be very pleased. I've used non-
mil. spec. transformers with success -- but I
guarantee my method without ill effect only for
the mil. spec. product.
Ramping up the voltage
in - Detroit, USA
Robert Michaels