RE: Inductor - Ballast

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Original poster: "david baehr" <dfb25@xxxxxxxxxxx>


Speaking of inductor ballast, anyone in the Northern Colorado area, I have 
an ol' Miller 240v welder, If ya need a ballast, come and get it !!!!! ;-)




>From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
>To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Inductor - Ballast
>Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 13:56:18 -0600
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>Original poster: Kidd6488@xxxxxxx
>
>Hey everyone, It's been, dang probably like 2 or 3 years since I've
>been on here. (Jonathon Reinhart, If you don't recall) Haven't
>really done anything with coiling lately - girls, job - they all get
>in the way...
>
>Anyways, I wanted to maybe mess around with coiling a little bit
>lately, and was feeling somewhat constructive.  Ok, So I've got 3 or
>4 MOTs layin around, and I'm not sure which ones work or not, and
>right now I pretty much just want to play around with them before I
>incorporate them into a coil setup. Now in order to 'play' with
>these I know you need some ballasting (and I think fuses as well :-)
>)  My easy way to series things: I made a standard extension cord
>with a handybox and outlet on the end, but I broke jumper tabs on
>the outlet and wired them in series (hot in;  nuetral out > hot in2;
>  nuetral out2).  So then I just plug my ballast into one socket and
>my mot(s) into the other.
>
>Now as far as ballasting goes... I might try a few things and see
>what I like:
>~  Bunch of light bulbs - I've got all kinds of lamp sockets around,
>and a few 250 or 500W bulbs... This should give me somethin to play
>with right?
>~  Water heater - We replaced our water heater and the old one is
>just sitting outside - the elements should do pretty good right? Any
>recommendations there?
>~  Inductor - So I already made one, and haven't tried it yet.  I
>took about 8 bolts, about 1/2" or 5/8" diameter, and about 6"
>long... bundled them up, and wrapped them up with rubber electrical
>tape. Then I took 3 pieces of #12 I had from old wiring we ripped
>out, each about 25' long - soldered them together and got around
>180-210 wraps on my little "core" I taped the outside of this and
>put it in a coffe can.  Now can I expect to get any inductance /
>ballasting out of this?
>
>Any combinations of the above ideas? I have a variac too that I got
>for like $5 but I think its 10A and I don't want to risk hurting
>it....
>
>Thanks, and nice to be a part of this great 'family' again.... :-)
>
>Jonathon
>
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