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OK, John,
What I see in the video looks quite reasonable.
Remember that a NST is not actually putting out 12 KV at 60 MA.
It can put out 12 KV into an open circuit at zero current.
It can put out 60 mA into a short circuit at zero volts, but not 12 KV
and 60 mA at the same time.
When you are drawing an arc, there is some resistance in the arc
itself. The amount of power drawn will depend on the resistance of the
arc.
Because the transformers are an inductive load, the current draw alone
may not be an accurate indicator of the actual power delivered.
Your PFC caps will help to make the transformer look more like a
resistive load, but you would need a power factor meter to actually see
what your effective power factor is.
Dave
On 9/17/2015 10:41 AM, wt5y wrote:
Don't know y it did that. I fixed it. Thanks for the heads up.
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-------- Original message --------
From: robert massa <massahbob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 09/17/2015 06:31 (GMT-06:00)
To: Tesla Coil Mailing List <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [TCML] Watch "NST and motor run caps and current draw." on
YouTube
The link says it is private ?
On Thursday, September 17, 2015 6:13 AM, wt5y <wt5y@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
https://youtu.be/0BF-g4dZ7j4
Here's a video of my meter and run caps I was experimenting with. There is no way I'm only running 2-3amps as david suggested or blowing fuses in variac cause of inrush current. I did not do a good job of explaining my setup in emails.
John cooper
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