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Nice tutorial Jim, adding to my engineering library, good stuff. On Friday, July 4, 2014, Tesla Coil Mailing List <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I landed on a good tutorial I missed before with a great wye:wye ratio > graphic and neutral calculations. Scroll down to wye:wye voltage graphic, > nice. > > > http://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/transformer/three-phase-transformer.html > > If interested... > Jim > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jim Mora [mailto:wavetuner@xxxxxxxxx <javascript:;>] > > Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2014 11:42 PM > > To: 'Tesla Coil Mailing List' > > Subject: Calculating the turns ratio in 3 phase HV > > > > Hi All, > > > > I have the Raytheon innards on the "bench" and the oil tank safely stowed > > and covered. The oil "looks" very good to me and amber clear; there is no > > sign of any water in the tank. It was probably well maintained until > taken > > out of service. Anyway, since the transformer is out of the tank, > > measuring the transformer output with a voltage divider is no longer > > practical so I need to determine the turns ratio. I seem to remember with > > pigs, back feeding 120Vac into the HV was enough maybe to energize the > > core and measure the LV. So the question is - if I feed 120v into HV 1 > > phase winding, I believe I read somewhere that LV 1 -N should reflect the > > direct turns ratio as in single phase. It is Wye:Wye, there is neutral on > > the primary but it is not on the schematic for the secondary as it is not > > needed in 6 pulse operation. I have to either find the secondary junction > > point or back feed 120 volts on a HV phase to another phase. I'm not too > > sure how to calculate it then. Would a like phase to phase LV be the > > correct voltage ratio value? > > > > If the transformer HV and six pulse calculates to the stated 24KV out, > > this would not be a good candidate for 6P resonant charging; and, I sure > > would like to know that at this juncture! > > > > Thanks, > > Jim Mora > > > > BTW, I found a tag that states "Ground Beacon", Federal Aviation...pulsed > > transmitter? > > _______________________________________________ > Tesla mailing list > Tesla@xxxxxxxxxx <javascript:;> > http://www.pupman.com/mailman/listinfo/tesla > -- Dave Sharpe, TCBOR/HEAS Chesterfield, VA USA Sharpe's Axiom of Murphy's Law "Physics trumps opinion!" _______________________________________________ Tesla mailing list Tesla@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.pupman.com/mailman/listinfo/tesla