RE: Ballasting the secondary side of transformers

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Original poster: "Breneman, Chris" <brenemanc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I'm currently trying to ballast the high-voltage end of my 2-MOT 
supply with a few microwave oven capacitors in series.  It seems to 
work pretty well, but I haven't built the rest of the Tesla coil yet.

Chris


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Sent: Fri 4/6/2007 7:12 PM
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Subject: Re: Ballasting the secondary side of transformers

Original poster: Mike <megavolts61@xxxxxxxxx>

That would seem to make good sense to me Bart....especially with MOT farms
Mike


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

Can someone please tell me why we are still ballasting on the LV side
of Pigs and PT's? This should be easy enough to do for a fixed
current limit. The costs associated with a LV ballast almost demands
we do this. The LV side is starting to appear very silly to me at the
moment. Granted, there are HV concerns, but is it really a big deal?
I get the feeling LV ballasting is simply convenient. However, it is
also expensive (unless one builds a ferrite ballast).

Just curious is anyone else has contemplated a high side ballast.

Take care,
Bart


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