Re: getting high voltage from the high voltage lines? (fwd)

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Original poster: "David Speck by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dave-at-davidspeckmd-dot-org>

Ballasting and filtering is, indeed possible, but expensive.

At the mini steel mill here in town, they have a two story frame 
probably 30 feet square filled with big HV inductors and capacitors to 
keep the highly variable current demands of the electric arc furnace 
from disturbing the power lines.  Still, when they first opened, the 
lights would dim and flicker all over the county when they fired up the 
monster, and computers not on UPS's would frequently reset.  Now, I 
guess in response to complaints, they have installed even more effective 
filtering, so the flickering is less noticable, but you can still tell 
if it is a hot day, and the demand on the distribution system is high.  

As I recall, the furnace runs at 60 volts at 600,000 average amps, three 
phase.  The graphite electrodes are 16" diameter, and come in 6 foot 
threaded sections, so they keep screwing new ones onto the ends of the 
working pieces are they are consumed in operation.  You can hear the 
furnace at least two miles away on a calm night, and if you are actually 
there, the vibration rattles your chest!  Very impressive.

The mill is the largest electricity consumer in 4 counties, and uses 
approximately $10 Meg of electricity each month, so NYSEG is reasonable 
accomodating to their needs and problems.
Dave

Tesla list wrote:

>Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<Kidd6488-at-aol-dot-com>
>
>Hello everyone,
>       Before I knew much about TCs I had wondered about this too... Say some
>one, like TTR or someone was to build a huge coil, that would require a
14.4 kV
>feed, how would you go about ballasting and filtering it? that much power
would
>require some pretty massive ballasts and filters... Is it even possible?
>
>---------------------------------------
>Jonathon Reinhart
>hot-streamer-dot-com/jonathon
>
>In a message dated 9/20/02 1:13:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>writes:
>
>>The Power Co. would have FITS with all of the distortion's introduced back
>>into their equip. from TC use.
>>SM
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