RE: ballast are bogus!!! (fwd)

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Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:33:42 -0400
From: Scott Bogard <teslas-intern@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: ballast are bogus!!! (fwd)

Daryl,
     If removing your ballast gave you a really dramatic performance 
improvement, it is probably sized incorrectly, also, hooking a distribution 
transformer up directly like that would certainly flip the breaker without 
breaking a sweat, those suckers draw hundreds of Amps ballasted.  I might 
also add, that it is possible you hooked your welding ballast up wrong, did 
you have the plug in series with your "pig" primary and the welders 
secondary shorted, or did you feed the pig off of the secondary outputs (the 
cables).  We need more details, stuff like how much does your pig weigh, 
what kind of welder was it, etc.  I'm sure the nice folks on the list will 
help you figure this out.
Scott Bogard.


>From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
>To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: ballast are bogus!!! (fwd)
>Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 06:27:10 -0600 (MDT)
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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!!!
>
>hello!!
>
>   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!
>
>   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.
>
>   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.
>
>   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.
>
>   so the whole ballast thing is a joke? i dont know what they were on when 
>they said that.
>
>
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