Re: ballast are bogus!!! (fwd)

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Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:23:37 -0500
From: BunnyKiller <bunnikillr@xxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: ballast are bogus!!! (fwd)

Hey Rockin...

you must have some serious length of wire between the polepig and the 
circuit breaker ( acting like a ballast or should I say a resistive 
load) to keep your piggie from pulling the amps it can. I would 
seriously consider looking at the wiring from the circuit breaker to the 
dryer plug to see if it has melted the insulation. Piggies are notorious 
for pulling hundreds of amps at 240VAC easily when the hi volt side is a 
complete circuit. The Piggie system I run REQUIRES a ballast to run. If 
I dont use one, the piggie blows the 70A breaker even when I just think 
about turning on the coil :) ....

To be able to let us help you, let us know more about your system ... 
things like how big your piggie is, the secondary dia. sizes, toroid 
sizes, cap size
you know... the important stuff...   who knows, with the correct info 
given to us we may be able to give some infoback to you so you may 
increase your streamer length to 10' instead of 6'.

As far as using welders as ballast...   some have had wonderful results 
in current control and others a smoking, stinking box of melted wire...

p.s.  the welder has something called a duty cycle  --  which equates to 
a time on and a time off ( to cool off) , if you exceed the duty cycle, 
the wires on the welder transformer become too hot to handle any further 
load and the insulation melts and either arcs out or the windings short 
to each other creating less and less of the needed turns to maintain the 
proper voltage per turn ratio...

lets us know more about your coil, alot of us here want to see other 
coilers improve the output of their coils....

Scot D



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>Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 00:10:15 -0700 (PDT)
>From: daryl barsoom <rockincoiler@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: ballast are bogus!!!
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>hello!!
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>  so i built a telsa coil last year?  after lots of mesing around with it it work pretty good, like 6' sparks!  i now sure wish taht i knew about you guys first!
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>  it has 950 turn secondaryand a 10 turn primary coil, made out of old welding cable.  the 'pole pig' (heh) is 220volt and runs off the welding outlet from the dryer in the garage.  i have an old SKIL saw with a 10" beam blade that work great for the rotary gap but the blade is good for only mabye 5 runs.
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>  but the website plans say to always use a 'ballast' like an old stick welder, with a pole pig.  so i did? but now the welder started smoking a little bit, because it was already very old.
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>  so, i got mad and just took the welder out of the circuit. and guess what?? the coil works  even better!!!  it arcs way longer, and you can't even looka t the SKIL saw anymore while its running!  the pole pig makes the hummy hummy thumpy sound too so now i guess its finally doing some work.
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>  so the whole ballast thing is a joke? i dont know what they were on when they said that.
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