Re: another ballast consideration

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• Subject: Re: another ballast consideration
• From: "Mike Magnus" <mike-at-gmx-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <terryf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 12:01:55 -0700
• Approved: terryf-at-verinet-dot-com

 Tristan:

When running a pig (or other center-tapped transformer) from 240V you
shouldn't connect the center of the LV side to ground or to the neutral, it
should be left floating. By all means connect the pig case to ground but
not to the neutral; there is a difference...

- MIke. 

> I am still new to pig - powered systems and just thought of a strange 
> thing that worries me.  Ok, the pig has two hot wires and a ground wire 
> (240VAC). Can you place the ballast in just one hot wire? Or do you need 
> equal ballasts on both leads? With just one, I would think that only 
> that hot-ground combination is protected and the other can still short 
> out? For that matter couldnt you run the thing and open up one hot wire 
> and wouldnt the other side still be conducting?
> 
> 10kVA sparks soon to come...(hopefully)
> Tristan Stewart, KC2EBM

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