Re: ballast are bogus!!! (fwd)

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Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:24:34 -0700
From: Barton B. Anderson <bartb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: ballast are bogus!!! (fwd)

Hi Adam,

Yes, true for 25kva pig. Even my 10kva pig will try to pull 2,770 amps!  
But, the common sense in that sentence is "try". What we hope it would 
do under such a short circuit condition (unballasted) is hopefully trip 
the breakers without an electrical explosion and without too much damage 
to the wiring. But, there's a very real chance the breakers will be too 
slow and thus a real possibility of an electrical fire.

In my case, my pig wiring is not part of the house wiring. I ran 
external feeds for coiling (just in case stupid showed up for the show). 
The last thing I need is a burned down house. I've been through one 
burned down house and I don't need that again (not from coiling but an 
old gas water furnace blew up in the garage while on a weekend 
excursion). A very odd feeling to drive up right when the firemen are 
putting out the last flames on your house (what timing, eh?). Had a 
boxer (dog) with pups in the garage where the furnace blew up. She was 
fed by a neighbor while we were away. Princess (dog) broke through the 
side door window and managed to save 2 of the pups (the rest died). Dogs 
are truly amazing creatures!

A house burning down is a terrible event for anyone to go through. We 
must prevent this possibility in our coiling community (i.e., ballasting 
pigs or similar transformers is truly important for more reasons than 
simply limiting current for coiling purposes).

Take care,
Bart

Tesla list wrote:

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>Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 16:03:41 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Yurtle Turtle <yurtle_t@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: ballast are bogus!!! (fwd)
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>At 2.3% impedence, mine theoretically would pull 4,529
>amps!
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>Adam
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>>Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:33:42 -0400
>>From: Scott Bogard <teslas-intern@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: RE: ballast are bogus!!! (fwd)
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>>Daryl,
>>     If removing your ballast gave you a really
>>dramatic performance 
>>improvement, it is probably sized incorrectly, also,
>>hooking a distribution 
>>transformer up directly like that would certainly
>>flip the breaker without 
>>breaking a sweat, those suckers draw hundreds of
>>Amps ballasted.  
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