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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