capacitive or sat.reactor ballast?

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• Subject: capacitive or sat.reactor ballast?
• From: "Mad Coiler" <tesla_coiler-at-hotmail-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <terryf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 20:19:57 -0700
• Approved: terryf-at-verinet-dot-com

Greetings to all,

  I have been browsing around the ballast posts and since I have just 
got my first pig (wich will be another post) I need to start thinking 
about ballasting.
  I non-coiler suggested that I use capacative ballast, and since I 
havent heard of this being done on the list I assume there is something 
bad about it...please fill me in. He says that a 60uF cap will pass 
about 5A and I could make a parallel bank of them and put em in series 
with the pig. I actually just got a 3phase power monitor(as big as two 
washmachines!) and it had a bunch of 60uF 330V caps. I assume 330VAC is 
sufficient for 240V pig?
  Also, someone else suggested I make a saturable core reactor using the 
core of my burnt out 50A variac. Any suggestions?

I always appreciate constructive criticism,
Tristan Stewart, KC2EBM

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