Re: Single-bushing 14.7kV pigs. Thoughts?

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Original poster: "Malcolm Watts" <m.j.watts-at-massey.ac.nz> 

On 14 Feb 2004, at 12:02, Tesla list wrote:

 > Original poster: "Gerry Reynolds" <gerryreynolds-at-earthlink-dot-net>
 >
 > Hi Dr. R
 >
 > Has anyone tried to put a big ferrite bead around the leads exiting
 > from the coax to turn the reflected energy into heat.  Certainly, with
 > the "right length" or the "right RF frequency", the coax can act like
 > a tank circuit.
 >
 > Gerry R

Iron powder toroidal cores designed for output smoothing in SMPS
would be better since they are terribly lossy with high amplitude AC
applied.

Malcolm


 >  > Original poster: "Dr. Resonance" <resonance-at-jvlnet-dot-com>
 >  >
 >  >
 >  > Our resonance was so great we were getting 16 inch long sparks
 >  across the > entire bushing to ground.  Rather scary. > > Dr.
 >  Resonance >
 >
 >
 >