Re: Controling a Pole Pig

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Subject: Re: Controling a Pole Pig
From: "Doug Brunner" <dabrunner-at-earthlink-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <terryf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 01:24:20 -0700
Approved: terryf-at-verinet-dot-com

It's really not worth it ripping up a pig and doing that. Also, you would
have a really hard time, if not an impossibility, putting a shunt in the
core without damaging some windings. Just go wind an inductive ballast.

           --Mr. Postman (Doug Brunner)
                <dabrunner-at-earthlink-dot-net>

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Date: Sunday, November 29, 1998 8:51 PM
Subject: Controling a Pole Pig


>Original Poster: "Vivian Watts" <V.C.Watts-at-btinternet-dot-com>
>
>Hi All,
>    Steve Rodway and I collected 4 Pole pigs last week from Eastern
Electric
>which is East of London.  I had one but I think Steve is seeing how many he
>can collect :-).  The are 240V to 11KV and 16KVA.  They cost nothing but
the
>time and travelling (16Hrs).  I understand about Balasting using resistive
>and inductive loads but would another way be to cut a slot in the magnetic
>path in the transformer.  Is this a done thing in Pole pigs?  How big a
>slot?
>
>Thanks
>
>Viv Watts UK
>
>
>