Re: lightning arresters

["Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>]

Original poster: "Yurtle Turtle by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <yurtle_t-at-yahoo-dot-com>

I have an 18 kV one that I got with my 14.4 pig.

http://www.geocities-dot-com/yurtle_t/misc/18kV_gap1.jpg

http://www.geocities-dot-com/yurtle_t/misc/18kV_gap2.jpg

I'd like to get another one. If you come across an 18
kV one that you don't need, drop me a line.

Adam

--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Tesla729-at-cs-dot-com>
> 
> In a message dated 1/12/02 6:21:15 PM Central
> Standard Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> writes: 
> 
> 
> >
> > Hi All 
> >
> > The junkyard usually has a pile of lightning
> arresters. Some of them are 
> > very heavy. Is there anything about them that
> would be useful to a coiler?   
> >
> > Godfrey Loudner 
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Godfrey, 
> 
> In my opinion, lightning arresters make good
> overvoltage pro- 
> tection for pole pigs in piggie powered coil
> systems, since 
> that's what they're designed for by the utility
> companies in 
> the first place. I have a 12 kV rated one that I
> have used in 
> the past with my 14.4 kV pig, but obviously, this is
> a little 
> low for 14.4 kV and the arrester does start clipping
> the pig's 
> output when the variac is turned up to near maximum.
> Of 
> course, it's just doing what it's supposed to do but
> I can't 
> seem to locate a 14 or 16 kV rated one. 
> 
> David Rieben
> 
> 


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Adam Minchey
yurtle_t-at-yahoo-dot-com
http://www.geocities-dot-com/yurtle_t/index.htm

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