RE: PFC Cap location???

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Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com>


Actually, that CORCOM is a RF Line Filter and from what i've heard, its best
to wire the RF Line Filter first and then the PFC caps in parallel as close
to the NST input as possible.
Dan



Ok terry
tell me if im wrong please
 you come from the wall into the pfc filter caps
PFC is for Power factor correction....
these Large non pulse rated caps reduce or smooth over the amount of amps
you are constantly pulling from the wall..reducing overpull of amperage
thus making a triped breaker less likely to occur during operation?
This becomes necessary when you get above 60 ma or so with Neons beacuse of
the amp load pulled from the wall?

What is the small corcom metal box next to the PFC capacitor bank???

Looks like I am going to have to learn more than a few new tricks before I
go bigger....

Chris Dowdy



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Subject: Re: PFC Cap location???


> Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>
>
> Hi Dan,
>
> PFC caps go directly across the line side terminals of an NST.  The NST is
> what screws up the power factor, and the PFC caps fix it.  No filters or
> anything else should get in their way since the NST and the PFC caps are
> trading some pretty high currents between themselves to make things look
> "nice" to the rest of the world.  Here is a picture of my big coil's ten
> 20uF PFC caps that are connected, rather dramatically, right across the
NST.
>
> http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/P7300003.jpg
>
> Note that the two frail wires from the input filter pale in comparison
even
> though they really supply all the "power"....  Power comes into the thing
> through the yellow wires.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Terry
>
>
>
> At 11:03 AM 7/29/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> >
> >Regarding the PFC caps for my system, I think someone said to wire them
up
> >PRIOR to the RF LINE FILTERS, but i want to make sure before i wire
anything
> >up permanently.
> >
> >I guess this is done to reduce the current to the line filters??
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Dan
> >
>