Re: Pig current?

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Original poster: "Yurtle Turtle by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <yurtle_t-at-yahoo-dot-com>

I have a similar sized coil:

http://www.geocities-dot-com/yurtle_t/tesla/index.htm

I used to push mine to around 5 - 6 kVA from my 14,400
25 kVA pig. I used multiple MOT's for current
limiting.

I can feed my pig up to 540 volts, (didn't say I'd
want to, just that I can) but I never went above 240.
Much more and I got bad racing sparks. I've since
toned it down to a single 15/120, and will soon be
winding a larger coil for my pig.

Adam


--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
> Original poster: "J. B. Weazle McCreath by way of
> Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <weazle-at-hurontel.on.ca>
> 
> 
> Hello Coilers,
> 
> I'm anticipating the arrival of my pole pig this
> week and I was wondering
> what a recommended power setting would be for
> starters?  I have a ballast
> choke that I can adjust the current on by varying
> the thickness of shims
> between the E and I core sections.  My adjustment
> range is about 4 to 12
> amps as measured by a Amprobe with 240 Volts applied
> to the ballast.
> 
> The coil is a 4 X 22 which is currently yielding
> multiple four foot long,
> thick and nasty streamers when powered by a bank of
> OBITs and a resonant
> 25 nF. MMC.  The pig can go as high as 16 KV when
> pushed with my variac,
> although I think I'll be conservative on the first
> runs and keep it down
> around 12 KV for starters until I get the feel for
> it.
> 
> 73, Weazle, VE3EAR/VE3WZL
> G-1#1214
> 
> Listening: 147.030+ and 442.075+
> E-mail:    weazle-at-hurontel.on.ca
>            or ve3ear-at-rac.ca
> Web site:  http://www.hurontel.on.ca/~weazle
> 
> 
> 


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Adam Minchey
yurtle_t-at-yahoo-dot-com
http://www.geocities-dot-com/yurtle_t/index.htm

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