RE: Ballasting ..... Again

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• Subject: RE: Ballasting ..... Again
• From: Sulaiman Abdullah <sulaiman-at-lityan-dot-com.my> (by way of Terry Fritz <terryf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 16:35:34 -0600
• Approved: terryf-at-verinet-dot-com

Mark, I've not tried balasting at this level so I can't comment, but to
protect your investment consider a 20A circuit-breaker, even if all goes
wrong I'd expect the breaker to protect the transformer (and the
incoming supply).
	<snip>
> The local 'junk shoppe' has some 20A variacs which I could skuttle.
> If I
> wound an inductive ballast on one of these how many turns would I need
> for
> say 5, 10, 15, 20A steps ??
> 
> I also noted with *great interest* the comments suggesting no
> difference in
> performance with slotted vs non-slotted cores - obviously not having
> to cut
> the core would save a lot of effort.
> 
> I want to GET THIS RIGHT .......... having spent many hours winding
> this
> toy, I don't want to see it go up in smoke !!
> 
> Thoughts, advice etc welcomed.
> 
> Cheers,  Mark
> 
> 

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