RE: Saturable Reactor Ballast from MOT's

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Original poster: Steve Conner <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Curt,

Great work! That has to be the easiest way ever to make a saturable 
reactor. But I thought of one thing that might cause trouble: There 
could be up to 2000V AC on the node where the two secondaries are 
connected together. At the moment, you have it arranged so this is 
the MOT cores.

I think this will stress the insulation a fair bit and you should 
swap it so the high voltage appears on the MOT output lugs where it 
was originally designed to. In other words: connect the two MOTs' 
output lugs together, and connect the DC control voltage leads to the cores.

If you decide not to change the wiring, whatever you do, don't touch 
the cores while it's operating >_<

Steve Conner
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