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Re: safety gaps at high power



Original poster: "D.Wightman by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <dwightman-at-mmcable-dot-com>

Ive had the same problem with my pig powered system. Try using the safety
gap across the caps instead....
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Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 8:31 AM
Subject: safety gaps at high power


> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>"
<Tesla729-at-cs-dot-com>
>
> Hi all,
> I've got a quick question for y'all. I have a safety gap that I installed
> on my 10 kVA pole pig. The problem that I have with this SG is that
> when it is set to where it does occasionally fire, it immediately power
> arcs, when it fires, due to the heavy current, and will only extenguish
> when I turn the power control variac way down. If I set it where it
dosen't
> fire at all, then I am defeating the purpose of having it in the first
place.
> I was wondering if any of you other "pig" coilers had noticed this pro-
> blem. I remeber reading an article by Richard Hull in one of the TCBA
> volumes, and he stated that he didn't even use safety gaps at power
> levels over 5 kVA due to this problem. BTW, my pig is externally bal-
> lasted with an arc welder. Comments anyone?
>
> David Rieben
>
>
>