Re: Slide-choke construction

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Original poster: "Patrick Herd" <zl2uph-at-hotmail-dot-com> 

this has nothing to do with the steel rod idea but it may help by giving you
a ballpark figure to work with. My current limiter was made by winding about
50-60 turns of 2.5 square millimeter house wire (rated at 25amps continous)
onto an old MOT core this limits to current in my MOT bank to about 35amps.
In terms of linkage http://tesla.reidconsulting-dot-com.au/tesla.html details
exactly what you're building
and http://www.richieburnett.co.uk/ballast.html has a lot of info on
ballasting.
Hope this is of some help
Pat
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Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 2:10 AM
Subject: Slide-choke construction


 > Original poster: "Erik Byng" <ebyng-at-knox.edu>
 >
 > Hey list:
 > A while back, in a post titled "the amazing variable choke," someone
 > mentioned that they'd build themselves a slide choke, running a bundle of
 > epoxied steel rods through a pvc form with the coil wound on it.  I'm now
 > thinking of building one myself, but the dimensions I'm a little shakey
on.
 > I have a +/-300ft roll of 10ga thhn which seems up to the challange, but
 > should it be wound with very few layers on a long form, or many layers on
a
 > short form?  I would think that to get the most out of the rod's travel,
it
 > would have to be wound long..  5 or so coil layers over ten inches of
travel
 > sound decent?
 >
 > Erik
 >
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