Inductive Kick LTR Pig Systems

[Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>]

Hi All,

	I was plugging away at a few Inductive Kick Larger Than Resonant designs
with pig transformers with MicroSim.  I can fairly easily charge a 270nF
cap to 20.3kV at 120BPS while staying inside the "specs" of everything.
However, that is only:

1/2 x 270x10^-9 x 20300^2 x 120 = 6676 watts 

for 10kVA input.  The problem is the power factor is really bad!  Do people
use PFC caps with pig systems??  I assume the "limit" of such a system is
the AC line current available.  PFC caps may do wonders for getting more
bang for the same current.  PFC cap could easily pull that power factor
right in.

IK LTR Pig Systems (IKLTRPS) seem very interesting since we can change the
ballasting and get over a rather obnoxious tuning parameter that cannot be
adjusted on NST systems...

If a pig can take a substantial current overload, one could just design an
IKLTRPS to match the breaker box limits ones has available.  50, 100, 200
amps service in other words.  With 200 amp service, you should be able to
get 45kW which is close to what Tesla had and works to 31 foot arcs from
John's equations "stretched" ;-))  Such a system may cost a bit more than
typical but there is a lot of potential for a really efficient home system
that would run an a tremendous amount of power.  Perhaps a 20 or 30 kVA pig
would be best.  I assume pigs are 240:14400 devices.  I work with three
phase all the time so I forget the "home" voltages...

Such a system may be kind of grand to do in the garage ;-))  But perhaps a
good Avalon project ;-)  Smaller systems my give wonderful performance with
more modest means...

Cheers,

	Terry