Original poster: Finn Hammer <f-h@xxxx> Mot intensive, yes. But not to the extent you suggest.In a DC coil, you don`t need low side ballasting. The current draw is determined by the breakrate, and the ballast is the charging reactor. The charging reactor needs to be small enough to allow full charging of the cap at highest breaktates, but big enough to not let the current trough it rise to unquenchable levels during ringdown.
Cheers, Finn Hammer Tesla list wrote:
Original poster: tesla <tesla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Hi Team This idea is great ,another way to use MOT's will certainly give this idea a go. Experiments with DC in the secondary core and its effect on L that I have done suggest the idea is very sound. The machine is lookibng very MOT intensive 6 MOTS in the main PSU 6 again in the DC charging inductor 4 More in this variable reactor Thank goodness they are nearly free