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[AMPS] ferro-resonant transformers?

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Subject: [AMPS] ferro-resonant transformers?
From: jflanders2@home.com (Jerry Flanders)
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 00:14:58 -0500
The kind I am familiar with require capacitors to run, and HUMMMMmmmm 
noisily while powered.

Jerry W4UK

At 10:22 PM 2/18/2002 -0600, Steve Bauder wrote:

>I have access to a few good sized ferro-resonant transformers that were
>in tower strobe lighting equipment. Good for a couple amps at 1400volts.
>I would think the self regulating properties of ferro-resonant
>transformers would make them excellent candidates for plate
>transformers, but watching the secondary voltage drop to nearly 0 every
>time the strobe tube fires kind of worries me. I would think that if I
>keep the current well under the saturation point that they would be
>better than standard iron. Any thoughts?
>
>Steve Bauder, nx9z


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