Hi Mike. back feeding from one secondary to the other may not be such a bad
thing. That would force the primary voltage division to the two
transformers to be exactly what is needed for equal secondary voltages.
The primary current will be the same since they are in series. Secondary
current would be +/- small amount as dictated by the turns ratio.
Does that make any sense?
My take on this is to hardwire the two transformers (after phase
confirmation) and standby for sparks
Very interesting application!
73,
Gerald K5GW
In a message dated 10/27/2011 3:37:53 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
mike@tubby.org writes:
Carel,
I think what you were originally suggesting might work, as long as you
have access to both sides of each primary winding.
If you call the phases Red (R), Yellow (Y) and Blue (B) as we used to in
the UK, the transformers #1 and #2 and the ends of the windings A and B,
then:
Red = R1A [primary] R1B --- R2A [primary] R2B
Yellow = Y1A [primary] Y1B --- Y2A [primary] Y2B
Blue = B1A [primary] B1B --- B2A [primary] B2B
each primary is in series and will see half-voltage. You still need to
know if you are to power it in 'star' or 'delta'.
On the output side the easiest (safest) thing to do would probably be 6
x diodes, each one a half-wave rectifier and parallel the DC side going
in to the smoothing - this way if one of the transformers provides 5-10V
more off load than the other it won't back need another secondary winding.
Alternatively you could use two three-phase rectifiers and parallel the
DC sides going in to your smoothing.
Rectifier arrangements are here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectifier
Regards
Mike G8TIC
On 26/10/2011 10:40, pc5m, Carel wrote:
>
>
> Hi Gerald,
>
> We have here 400V 3 phase power (voltage between the
> phase's) and as a result 230V between a phase and ground. So the lowest
> voltage I have "available" is 230Vac...
>
> gl, Carel.
>
> On Tue, 25 Oct
> 2011 18:02:30 -0400 (EDT), TexasRF@aol.com wrote:
>
>> Carel, what is
> your primary voltage there? Do you have three phase primary power?
>>
> 73,
>> Gerald K5GW
>>
>> In a message dated 10/25/2011 1:11:15 P.M.
> Central Daylight Time, pc5m@xs4all.nl writes:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have
> two identical 3 phase high voltage transformer (each around 4KVA /
>>> 50
> kg/ 100 pounds). Issue is they are designed for US 3 phase voltages.
> (so
>>> 120 / 204V) so can't use them in Europe as is. What I would like
> to do is to
>>> put the 2 units at the primary side in serie and at the
> secondary side in
>>> parallel. Primary and secondary in wye config.
>>>
>>> Q: Would there be any benefit of connecting the secondary windings
> of the
>>> two transformers first parallel and than rectify (with only
> one rectifier
>>> bridge) or the other way around ? For me it is much
> easier to first rectify
>>> both transformers and than put the rectified
> voltage parallel (only one
>>> highvoltage interconnect between both the
> big/heavy transformer boxes.).
>>> I have seen some constellations
> with two 3 phase transformer to gain some
>>> benefit in creating
> additional phases in order to reduce the ripple voltage
>>> even more.
> Don't know if I could utilize such a thing as well ? However, if
>>> I
> recall they were placed in parallel at the input.
>>> Thanks for any
> idea's . Gl, Carel
>>>
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