Re: Arc welder, pole pig questions

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Original poster: "Crow Leader by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tesla-at-lists.symmetric-dot-net>

It's very true unless you prefer 4x the losses in your primary coil.
Considering you can get replacement coils for large transformers at
Walgreens for $2.99, just go ahead and destroy your transformer.

KEN

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Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 10:43 PM
Subject: Re: Arc welder, pole pig questions


 > Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<dhmccauley-at-spacecatlighting-dot-com>
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 > Not if its a true center-tapped winding.  You can still wire a
center-tapped
 > transformer (i.e. this example) from centertap to one of the ends with
 > 120VAC and get 14400VAC output.
 > However, if you do this (and I don't recommend it), you would have to
derate
 > your transformer's kva rating accordingly.
 >
 > The Captain
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 >  >  > If I was only going to use 120VAC, I would forget the pole
transformer
 > for
 >  >  > now and wait until you do have 240VAC.  I suppose you could run
120VAC
 > if
 >  >  > you ran
 >  >  > it from center-tap to end on secondary instead of end-to-end as you
 > would
 >  >  > 240VAC.
 >  >
 >  > If you do that, you need to change the wiring inside the transformer as
 >  > well, to double up the 120 volt windings in parallel.
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 >  > KEN
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