Re: Welder ballast

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Original poster: "Arpit Thomas" <neko4-at-dodo-dot-com.au> 

well assuming a reasonably sane power factor, just measure the voltage 
across the pig, multiply it by 54, and then you have the power going into 
your pig :D

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On 17/01/2004 at 7:21 PM Tesla list wrote:

 >Original poster: "steve" <steve_vance-at-cablelynx-dot-com>
 >
 >I broke down and bought a 225A stick welder to ballast my 10KVA pig with.
 >I thought it would be the simplest way. Problem is, on the lowest setting,
 >in
 >series with my pig it draws 54 amps. That's more than I was hoping for. I'm
 >not quite sure how to figure out how much of this power is being put into
 >the pig.
 >I would like to get down to about 3-5KVA.
 >
 >I would appreciate any help or suggestions that anyone might have.
 >
 >Steve Vance