Re: Wild Pig Frankenstien, was Rewinding BIG transformer

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Original poster: "Christopher Boden by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <chrisboden-at-hotmail-dot-com>

>Original poster: "BunnyKiller by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" 
><bigfoo39-at-telocity-dot-com>
>Hi Chris...
>
>as far as a SCR ...

(slaps his head) aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

NOW I GET IT!!!!!!!

I have had MUCH confusion for the past year or 2 about this SCR thing. I 
thought it referred to a Silicon Controlled Rectifier (a solid state thing), 
not a Saturable Controlled Reactor (a big iron thing). Yet another one of 
those coiling epiphanies....

a core of that magnitude would require quite a bit of
>windings to bring it to saturation,
>not to mention the amount of power required to energize the core into a
>saturated state.
>
>for example... i tried to make a SCR with a 30KVA 3phase transformer. it
>took nearly 70 amps to even get
>close to a saturation point ( and even at that power i was still not close
>enuf for the SCR to react like it
>is supposed to). btw the core area is about 16"^2.
>
>Scot D


Ok....so much for that idea....thank you VERY much for explaining it to me 
:)


So what can I DO with these?



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