Re: safety gaps - was: Racing Spark Prediction

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Original poster: dest <dest@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hallo Bart.

> Original poster: "Barton B. Anderson" <bartb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Well, all of a sudden, the coil just stopped work. All was silent. I
> figured I had  killed one side of my NST.

so you were relying only on safety gaps? then what do you think about this:

http://www.eeel.nist.gov/817/817g/spd-anthology/files/Evaluate%201963%20SPDs.pdf

?

> I then hooked up my HV divider to the NST and measured each side.
> One was 6,300 volts and the other ZERO!

hmm, 6 thousand exactly 300 volts - it sounds familiar to me, but why?
maybe because of about 20 MVA they running all around here from 6kv? : D
look here:

http://himplast.ru/father_dest/temp/6kv

4.jpg - two feeders in parallel - for 600 A summary
6.jpg - looks like it`s sorta GFI transformer : )
7.jpg - idling at just 0.9 MVA - lunch time : D
10.jpg - current transformers for power metering - unfortunatelly we
don`t have own local nuke station yet and must pay for all this amps : )