RE: Passive Ballasting for DRSSTC - My thoughts before Ed Wingates Teslathon

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Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H" <daniel.h.mccauley@xxxxxxxx>

>Anyway, there have been several replies on this subject now.  Just to
state/summarize my current thoughts.  I honestly >>>.cannot find any
hard evidence as to why your limiting method works, obviously it does
work, but apparently we dont know >why (yet).  Unfortunately i will have
to say that im still for active limiting, if for no other reason that
its operation >is easily understood.  In my opinion, we want as much
control over these beasts as we can get.

Yes, I do agree that active current limiting is the way to go.  Hard
limits can be set using it, and it is fully understandable.  However,
just trying to understand more why this ballasting effect occurs, as it
doesn't appear to work in the same way like simple resistive or
inductive ballasts.  I will have to explore further . . .

Dan