Re: Getting Closer to First Light with 10KVA Pig

[Tesla729-at-cs-dot-com (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

In a message dated 8/20/00 11:43:47 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:

<<  What I plan to do is feed the pig with 120v, up to 84 amps.  The
 reason why I am so insistant on using 120v is that if used 240v, the output
 of the pig would be over 28Kv, and my capacitors could never handle that. 
 ($$$$ Not having any money can be a real pain. $$$$$) >>

Ryan,

A typical pole pig's LV windings are two 120 volt windings which are
wound in series from the factory. If you apply 240 volts to the two out-
er LV bushings, you will still get only 14.4 KV out. As one of the other
members mentioned, if you want to run it on 120, you need to get in-
side of it and change the internal hookup of the LV windings from series
to parallel. The way it is prewired in series, if you hook 240 volts to the
outer two of the three side-mounted LV bushings (leave the center one
unconnected) you should get 14,400 volts from 240 volts in. This is ex-
actly the way I've connected mine and I think its the way that most 
coilers hook up pigs. Bottom line, you don't have to run it on 120 volts
-at- some ungodly ~100 amps to get just 14 KV out. You can run it on
240 volts to get the 14.4 KV. Hope this helps.

Safe Coilin'
David R.