Re: Ballast choke

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Original poster: BunnyKiller <bunikllr-at-bellsouth-dot-net> 

sounds like a winner to me ...

Scot D



Tesla list wrote:

>Original poster: "J. B. Weazle McCreath" <weazle-at-hurontel.on.ca>
>
>Hello Coilers,
>
>I was given a large inductor the other day that has three taps
>of 15, 20, and 37 mH. (measured with LCR-55).  It's quite old,
>and is wound with a square wire of 1/8" cross section onto a
>wound core of thin metal with a cross section of about five
>square inches within the windings.
>
>A chart from the list that I saved several years ago indicates
>that with 120 Volts applied, it would limit the current at 9,
>16, and 21 amps, depending on the tap used.  Does this sound
>about right, and would it be OK for use as a ballast, even
>though the core isn't, and can't easily be, gapped?
>
>73, Weazle, VE3EAR/VE3WZL
>
>Details of my "Hyperbaric Gap" and Tesla coil are at:
>http://www.hurontel.on.ca/~weazle
>
>