Re: Filter for a high power coil

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Original poster: "Matt Segal by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <segal3-at-linkline-dot-com>

>From the opinions I've heard on the list...pigs are extremely durable...why
would they need a filter? NSTs utilize the filters because they are rather
sensitive to any feedback, I didn't think this was the case with pigs.

~Matt Segal
Email - segal3-at-linkline-dot-com
Webpage - http://www.carbonOS-dot-com

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Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 3:45 PM
Subject: Filter for a high power coil


> Original poster: "Jason by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
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> Hi all,
>
> I will hopefully be getting my hands on a dirty great 16KVA piggie some
time
> before the year is out. I was wondering how THE HECK i build a filter for
> something this huge!!! Obviously a terry filter would be completely
> unsuitible because of the power loss through the resistors. I was thinking
> of a choke based filter with some caps to short out the RF and maybee some
> MOVS to take nasty strikes or whatever and of course the standard safety
> gap, but I dont want to start playing around with chokes after all the
> recent discussion about how they cause surges back to the xfmr. I am not
> worried at all about the xfmr (i will be running it at half its rated
power)
> but am more worried about everything on the rest of the house supply...
>
> Does anyone have any advice/experience with such high powered filters?
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
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