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Which DC Drive?
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To: "'Tesla List'" <tesla@pupman.com>
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Subject: Which DC Drive?
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From: Tesla List <tesla@stic.net>
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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 23:20:22 -0500
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From: Greg Leyh [SMTP:lod@pacbell.net]
Sent: Monday, June 15, 1998 6:28 AM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: FW: Which DC Drive?
Steve Young wrote:
> Suppose I knocked out the MOT magnetic shunts, or had some other "hard" DC
> supply. Again, what are guidelines for sizing a current-limiting charging
> reactor?
The reactor L should be sized so that, at the maximum break rate,
it will just barely finish charging the cap bank between firings.
In other words, BPS(max)/2 = 1/[2pi * SQRT(Lreact/Cpri)].
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