Re: ballast are bogus!!! (fwd)

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Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 18:41:20 -0500
From: resonance <resonance@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: ballast are bogus!!! (fwd)



The thumping sound you hear is the poor pig getting hit with excessive 
current peaks for short durations.  A good way to lose the pole pig.  Use a 
ballast and it will run smoother and you won't be sitting with a dead pig in 
the near future.


Dr. Resonance

Resonance Research Corp.
www.resonanceresearch.com


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Subject: Re: ballast are bogus!!! (fwd)


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> Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 10:32:24 EDT
> From: FIFTYGUY@xxxxxxx
> To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: ballast are bogus!!! (fwd)
>
>
>
> In a message dated 9/5/07 9:02:45 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
>>after lots of mesing around with it it work pretty good, like 6'  sparks!
>
>    6' sparks isn't a lot to brag about when you're  using a 'pole pig' as 
> a
> power supply!
>
>> i now sure wish taht i knew about you guys  first!
>
>
>    Better late than never. Welcome  aboard!
>
>> the 'pole pig' (heh) is 220volt and runs  off the welding outlet from the
> dryer in the garage.
>
>    What's that dryer receptacle rated for? Typically  they're only 30 
> amps.
>
>> 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.
>
> Good thing that circular saw is double-insulated.  But it probably wasn't
> meant to hold off kilovolts. Even if the pig's  high-voltage side is left
> floating (two-bushings, non-grounded) you might be  running a lot of RF 
> current back
> to the house via the cord on the saw.
>    Or maybe you're using a battery-powered saw?
>
>> 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.
>
> In proper application as a ballast, the loads on  a welder should be no 
> more
> than those it sees during normal usage. Unless you  were pushing the duty
> cycle too far?
>
>>  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.
>
>
>
>
> You're probably running a very high break rate with  that saw blade gap. 
> What
> kind of capacitor are you using?
>    And out of curiosity, what's the nameplate data on  the pole pig?
>
>    Thanks,
>
> -Phil LaBudde
>
> Center for the Advanced Study of Ballistic  Improbabilities
>
>
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