RE: Current in the Coil -

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Original poster: "Greg Leyh by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <lod-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Hi Dave, All,

Both the primary and secondary coils on Electrum are
air-cooled, as neither develops any appreciable RMS
heating.  The peak base current in the secondary is
about 60A , and at the full break rate this results
in about 10A RMS, which is acceptable for the 12ga
secondary wire.


>Original poster: "David Thomson <dave-at-volantis-dot-org>
>
>Thanks for the link. That's quite an input, 2800A! The peak current in the
>Electrum secondary was 61A. Do you know what kind of secondary coil cooling
>mechanism they used, if at all?
>Dave T.
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>Original poster: "Dave Larkin by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
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> >I'm still interested in reading about the coils with the tens of amps
>OK - Electrum. www.lod-dot-org
>Secondary base current of 15.98A rms.
>Secondary output current of 37.4A rms.
>(the apparent disparity is, I assume, due to different break rates in the
>two measurements. Greg any comments?)