Re: [TCML] Saturable reactors for TC Current limiting?

["Teslalabor" <teslalabor@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

last year I did some experiments on this topic. I also noticed at this time, 
that nearly no information is available about saturable reactors on the 
TCML. In my experiments I replaced the normal air gapped ballast inductor of 
my PT powered medium coil with 200bps SRSG by a big saturable inductor. The 
results were very interesting but I stopped to investigate this further. 
Maybe sometime in future I will continue experiments. I made 2 videos, the 
first one shows the setup I used. The winding on the central leg of the 
reactor is the "work" winding and the 2 outer legs, connected in series, is 
the control winding. Heres the setup video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBNglLIUpRE

And here it is running:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZn4bZOKS4U

Best Regards,
Stefan


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Speck" <Dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2011 8:28 PM
Subject: [TCML] Saturable reactors for TC Current limiting?


> Anyone have any experience using a saturable reactor to limit TC current 
> draw on potential or MOT transformer stacks in disruptive TC applications?
>
> I thought I was tole once by a "prominent" authority in the TC business 
> that they didn't work well.
>
> I know I have a 5 kW slide choke "somewhere".  Just can't lay my hands on 
> it at the moment.
>
> Dave
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