OT: Very big inductor, was very big capacitor
2003-12-10 by J. Larry Hendry
Well, I was so into analyzing the switch operation, I failed to really look closely at the video once it was panned back at the very end. Now that I have pulled my head out and have looked, I see that this switch is really being used to switch a special type of transformer that can be seen as three single-phase units right behind the truck. These are single winding units connected phase to ground to offset the capacitance of the attached line. They are commonly referred to as "shunt reactors" in the utility business. The file has been moved to a server capable of the traffic. Thanks to Old Crow and everyone else that offered to host it. And, my apologies to Cary at Retrosynth who has been a very generous and gracious host of www.wiseguysynth.com for some time. I had no idea the traffic would blow up like it did. I "should" have known. My bad. I have added a page at my site with additional technical explanation (only as I know it from observation) and a link to clip. http://www.wiseguysynth.com/larry/day.htm I'll now cease the OT matter. But, I hope you all enjoyed it. :) Larry Hendry (sometimes, releaser of the big smoke)