Re: Welder ballast

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Original poster: "steve" <steve_vance-at-cablelynx-dot-com> 

I was kind of thinking the same thing,  I'm gonna try it later today.
Thanks
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Subject: Re: Welder ballast


 > Original poster: "J. B. Weazle McCreath" <weazle-at-hurontel.on.ca>
 >
 >
 > At 07:21 PM 17/01/04 -0700, you wrote:
 >
 >  >Original poster: "steve" <steve_vance-at-cablelynx-dot-com>
 >  >
 >  >I broke down and bought a 225A stick welder to ballast my 10KVA pig
with.
 >  >I thought it would be the simplest way. Problem is, on the lowest
setting
 >  >in series with my pig it draws 54 amps. That's more than I was hoping
for.
 >  >I'm not quite sure how to figure out how much of this power is being put
 >  >into the pig.  I would like to get down to about 3-5KVA.
 >  >
 >  >I would appreciate any help or suggestions that anyone might have.
 >  >
 >  >Steve Vance
 >  >
 >
 > Hi Steve, Coilers,
 >
 > Have you got the welding leads shorted?  From what you're saying, that
 > is likely the case.  Try putting a low value resistance across the two
 > welding leads...something like a water heater element, for instance.
 >
 > 73, Weazle, VE3EAR/VE3WZL
 >
 > Details of my "Hyperbaric Gap" and Tesla coil are at:
 > http://www.hurontel.on.ca/~weazle
 >
 >
 >