RE: Banked NST failure scenerio

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Original poster: "Lau, Gary by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Gary.Lau-at-compaq-dot-com>

There's no problem.  The NST with the open fuse would just act as a 15kV to
120V stepdown xfmr with no load.

Gary Lau
MA, USA



>Original poster: "Rick W by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
><rickwilliams404-at-earthlink-dot-net>
>
>Hi List,
> 
>I have 3 NSTs in parallel, Franceformer (depotted) 15/30s, all in phase,
>working fine. Combined current = 103ma as measured across a 1000ohm
>100watt resistor.
 >
>Each is presently fused with 10A slo-blo fuses. ( If that's the wrong fuse
>value I'd appreciate any suggestions. )
>Anyway,
>If one of those fuses should open would the resulting 60ma from the 2
>active
>secondaries harm the "dead" secondary if that secondary was not open? >Or
would
>the inductance be enough to withstand the applied current? 
> 
>I'd like to find out the effects of this before adding any more to the
bank.
> 
>Thanks all !!
> 
>Rick Williams
>Salt Lake City