Re: Ballasting

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Original poster: "S & J Young by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <youngs-at-konnections-dot-net>

Kamil,

Your ballast resistor wastes power equal to the current squared times the
ohms.  So if you are drawing 10 amps, you will be throwing away about 1,500
watts of power which otherwise could go into your TC streamers.  So yes, an
inductive ballast will improve your performance assuming your TC can stand
the extra power going into it.
--Steve
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Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 4:28 PM
Subject: Ballasting


> Original poster: "Kamil by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
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> Hi!
>
> I have basic question about ballasting power transformer in TC system.
> Now I'm using primary 15ohm resitive ballast. My line voltage is 220VAC,
and
> my transformer is 15kV(not current limited). My tank cap is 40nF.
> It's working nice :-), but I thought about changing bllast on inductive.
> Do You think it may improve performance? Perhaps I will have to
> change my capacitor- coutn what will be the resonnant cap value and
> add/reduct some capacitance (if it will be necessary) to have LTR.
> Do You think it is worth to make such changes?
>
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