Re: safety gaps - was: Racing Spark Prediction

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

Hi Dimitry,

Tesla list wrote:

> 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:

Oh, funny you should bring that up. As a matter of fact, I didn't 
adjust the safety gaps (could be the part of the "silent" problem).

> > 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 : ) \


Interesting. I like the configuration. Seems 3-phase is norm there. I 
noticed the color codes on the strapping as well as the overhead buss 
lines. What is the color scheme represent?

Take care,
Bart