Re: Welder ballast

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Original poster: "S & J Young" <youngs-at-konnections-dot-net> 

Steve,

I assume your welder's output current is controlled by a moving magnetic
shunt.  You might be able to open up the welder and adjust the linkage for
the current control so that magnetic shunt goes further into the magnetic
path at the lowest setting.
--Steve Y.
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Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 7:21 PM
Subject: Welder ballast


 > 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
 >
 >
 >