Re: Ballast

• To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
• Subject: Re: Ballast
• From: Hollmike-at-aol-dot-com (by way of Terry Fritz <terryf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 19:45:45 -0700
• Approved: terryf-at-verinet-dot-com

In a message dated 11/3/98 10:12:07 PM Mountain Standard Time,
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:

>  I've heard of people
>  shorting out the secondary on welders but surely this then presents zero
>  inductive impedance then.  Any thoughts?
>  
>  Regards
>  
>  Viv Watts UK
Hi Viv, all,
I was wondering the same thing about MOT's.   I keep hearing about people
popping breakers when using MOT's with the secondary shorted.  I would have
thought that a resistor, or even some type of reactive load on the secondary
would reflect some impedance back to the primary and prevent drawing too much
current.  I haven't heard of anyone trying this.  Why?  Someone please educate
me.
Mike

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