Re: poor power factor coils

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Original poster: FutureT-at-aol-dot-com 

In a message dated 4/17/04 9:40:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:

>I realised
> >that most of our coils will have quite shockingly bad power factors.I'm
>not
> >very sure of the physics here, so please excuse me if I'm talking absolute
> >garbage. WIth my microwave oven transformers, 2 of them almost shorted on
> >their outputs tends to cause my 35 amp breaker to blow. However it almost
> >never blows the 16 amp fuse.


My 120 bps SRSG coils have an excellent power factor when run
in typical near-resonant mode for PT or pig operation with an
inductive ballast.  Your 35amp breaker may be defective.

John