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Re: new transformer - performance
In a message dated 4/29/00 11:40:35 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:
> c) Why doesn't the increased voltage cause the gap to fire earlier
> independent of current setting?
>
> Coil performance is on par with the older transformer only now the voltage
> is much higher and the current is higher also.
>
> Thanks, and best regards
>
> Robin Copini
Robin,
Well, for one thing, since the voltage step up ratio has changed,
a different amount of ballasting is needed, when you changed the
amount of ballasting using the variac, this may have caused more
saturation in the variac, and this may be causing the inefficiency
you're seeing now. Just a thought.
Cheers,
John Freau