Re: capacitive pole pig ballast

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Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net> 

Tesla list wrote:
 >
 > Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H" <daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com>
 >
 > Forget the capacitors.  If you are looking for a simple, low-cost,
 > no-frills 3 kVA ballast, then the
 > 500ft roll of 12 AWG wire from Home Depot or similar will do the trick
 > every time.
 >
 > Dan
 >
 >  > Could someone tell me how many .9uf  MO caps it would take to
 >  > ballast a
 >  > 10kva 14400v pig for 3 kva
 >  >
 >  > Thanks
 >  > Steve

	I've never understood "capacitive ballasting".  Resistive or inductive
yes, but seems to me capacitors in the circuit work in the wrong
direction.

Ed