Re: bad pole xmfrs

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Original poster: "Eastern Voltage Research Corporation" <dhmccauley-at-easternvoltageresearch-dot-com> 

 > Someone correct me on that if I'm wrong on that, but I do know
 >  > that a pig can be ran at 2 or even 3 times its nameplate kVA rating
 >  > running a Tesla coil for short runs (<5 minutes - not too many of
 >  > us are gonna run a coil for longer time intervals than that, anyway).
 >  >
 >  > David Rieben
 >
 >
 > Hi Dave,
 >
 > Ed Wingate mentioned in a recent post that his magnifier ran for two plus
 > hours at his T-thon, and it seems that several of those runs were in the 5
 > minute range.  There was literally an assembly line of people in and out
of
 > the "Cage of Death".  I don't remember any MMC's, (OOOPS!  I meant PCI
pulse
 > caps.)  blowing either, and the only time she was down was to switch
people
 > in the cage.

Actually, if i remember correctly, Ed was having problems with his spark gap
cooling fan overheating which caused him some
short downtime.  Kind of ironic.  A cooling fan overheating!

Dan