Re: 20 joules at 100 bps vs 4 joules at 500 bps

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Original poster: "Dmitry (father dest)" <dest@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> Original poster: Greg Leyh <lod@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> >Original poster: "Mike" <mike.marcum@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >I've always wondered what would happen (without actually trying it,
> >don't wanna PO the power company) of actually arcing to a 14.4 kV
> >power line. I'm guessing a blindingly bright arc with enough current
>
> A better way to couple the local power grid directly into your
> secondary would be to step the 14kV down to ~1kV first.  The burning
> arc between the toroid and 1kV terminal should present a load in the
> 5-20ohm range, yielding ~50-200kW.   The neighborhood feeder should
> be able to support these loading levels for minutes, possibly longer.

as a result you`ll get something like this:
http://www.ttr.com/images/hist2.jpg
for a very short period of time :-)
i guess if we just draw an arc beetween LV outs of a 14.4kv pole pig,
resulting explosion would be more spectacular :-)

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(c) Richard Quick  6-07-95 03:59