Re: new coilers and questions

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Original poster: "Gary Kasper by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <prodent-at-centurytel-dot-net>

Thanks for the nice warm welcome "fellow brothers of the electron".
The answer to the question of the size of the pole pig was .5kva (500watts)
120/12500vac. This was used for control switching of a capacitor bank. Also
used for street light lighting in a isolated area where maybe one or two
lights where required. I now the secondary (12.5kv) sounds odd to some of
you but rarely do we ever see a 14.4kv in our grids. Maybe more South of us.
Which brings me to the next answer to a question. We are located in Northern
Wisconsin and Upper Michigan Our two towns border each other and are named
Hurley and Ironwood. We are about 10 miles off the South shore of Lake
Superior. One of the Great lakes if not the Greatest.

The Luxtrol that I mentioned in my first post is a variac. It is a 120vac
2000watt 16.7amp ironcore, square wound, top wiper, transformer with a
synchronous motor to drive the wiper. Travel time is 14 sec end to end.
We fired it up last night to test it. Found the wiper brush was froze but
was easy to repair. We high-potted it and checked out OK.

The wire planned for our TC secondary is 18AWG enameled. I just happened to
have three reels of this sitting around. I don't know yet if I'll be able to
use this until we start the calculations.

If you all see a problem with our Piggy being too small (500watts) please
let me know. We might have a couple other choices.

We are pretty much opened to Ideas on Spark gap systems and Caps. We have a
lot of resources here and are caplable of building anything. Money is not a
problem since we don't need it. Everything seems to be laying around. Oh ya,
I might mention that my uncle owns a salvage yard. Lots of treasures there.
If only my wife would let me take some of it home.

Good talking at you.
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Gary Kasper
prodent-at-centurytel-dot-net