Re: Saturatable reactor Questions

• To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
• Subject: Re: Saturatable reactor Questions
• From: "Dr. Resonance" <Dr.Resonance-at-next-wave-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 21:49:55 -0700
• Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
• Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

Ed:

That's why we use standard commercial type reactors --- smoke is rather
alarming to museum management types and also Fire Marshals.

Dr. Resonance



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To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Date: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 8:31 PM
Subject: Re: Saturatable reactor Questions


>Original Poster: Esondrmn-at-aol-dot-com
>
>In a message dated 3/7/00 2:31:29 PM Pacific Standard Time,
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>writes:
>
><<
> Dennis:
>
> If you are going to run with a pole pig at around 6-7 kVA you need to use
8
> or 10 AWG on the reactor.  The 12 AWG will overheat due to the short term
> spikes when the xmfr is momentarily shorted.  These peaks sometimes go to
> nearly 100 amps for short periods of time.
>
> Dr. Resonance
>  >>
>I use a 5,000 watt light dimmer (variac) for a reactor for my coil.  When
>running at 6-7 kva, I have tried adjusting the reactor and noticed the
>brushes really don't like that.  I got smoke doing this once.  Now I only
do
>reactor adjustmets at less than full power.
>
>Ed Sonderman
>
>
>

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