Re: Inductive Kick LTR Pig Systems

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

Hmmmm, assumming the AC line is "stiff", the PFC cap really should not make
so much difference in stremaer length...  Perhaps there is more to this
here however...

Cheers,

	Terry


At 10:05 PM 8/27/00 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 8/27/00 12:10:34 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
>tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:
>
>> It is seeming that pig ballasting is not
>>  correcting the power factor and doing no more than limiting current, such 
>as
>>  the success Marc's recent use of PFC's. 
>
>Bart, all,
>
>I know that at 120 bps, the best ballast setting for long
>sparks, will also give excellent power factor.  I'm not sure quite
>how this will work at higher bps, maybe some pfc will be needed,
>I don't know.  I would tend to think that the power factor could be
>corrected to a reasonable degree simply by a suitable ballast 
>adjustment at any bps in a pig or PT system while maintaining
>good spark output.
>
>John Freau
>