Which DC Drive?

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• Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 23:13:14 -0500
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From:  Greg Leyh [SMTP:lod-at-pacbell-dot-net]
Sent:  Sunday, June 07, 1998 6:28 AM
To:  Tesla List
Subject:  Re: Which DC Drive?

Steve Young wrote:

[snip] 
> 2) What are the rules-of-thumb for sizing the charging reactor as far as
> inductance, peak voltage it must handle, etc. for a given DC supply?  I was
> planning to use a couple of MOT secondaries in series--will that work OK?

If you are using a shunted xfmr such as an NST or MOT, then a
charging reactor is not required.  The reactor is used to limit
and define the charging current in a 'hard' DC supply, whereas
the MOT's mag shunt will define the max current in your system.

I don't know if the BIL rating is sufficient on MOT's to put
them in series; will they operate with one output term at gnd?
-- 


-GL
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