In alt.engineering.electrical daestrom wrote:
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| wrote in message
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| In alt.engineering.electrical Michael Moroney
| wrote:
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| | Are the load tap generators configured make-before-break?
| | Break-before-make would mean a (very short) power outage every
| activation
| | but make-before-break would mean a momentarily short-circuited winding
| and
| | the break would involve interrupting a large short circuit current.
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| I wonder how much regulation could be managed through the use of variable
| leakage inductance in the transformer windings.
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| I suppose you could, but increasing leakage inductance means you're
| increasing losses aren't you? Just a percent or two on a unit rated for 250
| MVA can be too much to tolerate.

Isn't it just inductance in series? Shouldn't that just be a phase shift as
seen from the primary side?

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