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Re: Saturatable reactor Questions





Dennis:

If you are going to run with a pole pig at around 6-7 kVA you need to use 8
or 10 AWG on the reactor.  The 12 AWG will overheat due to the short term
spikes when the xmfr is momentarily shorted.  These peaks sometimes go to
nearly 100 amps for short periods of time.

Dr. Resonance


-----Original Message-----
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Date: Monday, March 06, 2000 9:32 PM
Subject: Saturatable reactor Questions


>Original Poster: BillEaver-at-aol-dot-com
>
>I have DE-wired a large transformer. 4X4X5 (just the steel) inches, and
plan
>to wind two layers of #21 gauge enamel wire over the "center E" for the
>control winding. Does this sound like overkill to saturate the core? Then I
>plan to wind the rest of it
>with #12 gauge to fill rest of the core. Anyone made one of these before?
>Denis Despins
>KC6TRW
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