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Re: [TCML] Quadruple stack of 1156 or 1256 Superior Variac



Hi Phillip,

True enough, Kevin Eldredge definitely has a larger
Tesla coil SYSTEM than I could ever dream of.
However my qualifier was the SINGLE UNIT con-
trol panel. If I'm not mistaken, Kevin has his pole
pig(s) on a seperate cart from his main control
panel. What I'm getting at is that I haven't seen
(or at least noticed) a large scale Tesla coil assem-
bly, besides mine and maybe DC Cox's Big Brui-
ser control panel, that has the entire control pa-
nel assembly (including the power transformer)
in a SINGLE unit. Then again, I also stated
"excluding the pros" so I'm not sure that DC's
BB control panel should count here, either.

David




----- Original Message ----- From: "Phillip Slawinski" <pslawinski@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 7:36 AM
Subject: Re: [TCML] Quadruple stack of 1156 or 1256 Superior Variac


I bet Kevin Eldridge has you beat.  I've seen videos of his setup, it's
massive.

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 07:17, David Rieben <drieben@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Jim,

Yes, I got an even better find than that when I got my
quad-stack 1256Ds a few years ago. Came with the
balancing chokes and the cabinet in which they were
mounted for $295 - about 630 lbs, total, including the
pallet. Got a deal on the freight charges too, only ran
me about $125. I employed this variac setup into my
Green Monster control panel and have never even
been able to get them the slightest bit warm, as I do
happen to "need" 31.4 kVA (;^). I love 'em and know
that I will probably never find another "deal" to beat
the one that I got on these. As a matter of fact, I still
have the empty cabinet in which they were mounted
sitting in my back yard - don't really have any current
use for it as I mounted the variacs into my own pre-
viously existing control panel cabinet.

BTW, I wonder if any other hobby coiler has a more
massive SINGLE unit control panel than mine (exclu-
ding the "pros",  i.e. KVA Effects, LOD, ect.) It contains
the quad-stack variac, the ~75 lbs. ballast choke, AND
the fully tanked 10 kVA pole pig, as well as the ARSG
variac and associated control circuitry! Estimate it to
weigh in the 1200 to 1300 lb. range!

David Rieben


----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Mora" <wavetuner@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Tesla Coil Mailing List'" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 2:28 AM
Subject: [TCML] Quadruple stack of 1156 or 1256 Superior Variac



 Hi Group,

There is a quad stack of Superior variacs on Ebay sans drive motor. It has
4
balancing chokes too. $499.00 / offer By Cleveland, OH. Quite a find!
Break
it down and sell some to the group and get your money back! 270307825808
Unless of course you need 31.4 KVA ;-))

Jim Mora

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