Strange Current Flow

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• Subject: Strange Current Flow
• From: "ross andrews" <sflourine-at-home-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 22:43:03 -0700
• Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
• Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

	Hi all,

	I wired an ammeter up to my coil today, and something strange happens -
	The tranny (a 15 kV, 25 mA NST), draws about 3A on the primary when
shorted, but when used in my coil, the meter jumps from 3 to 5A,
sometimes even going off the scale of the thing.  Since the NST is
current limiting by itself, the only thing I can think of is that
perhaps only actual power is limited by the NST, and at times a large
reactive component is induced somewhere, allowing the NST to spit out
more current as purely reactive power.

	Any comments apprecitated,

	Ross

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