Re: [TCML] Pole Pig Question

[Yurtle Turtle <yurtle_t@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have a 25 kVA 14.4 kV pig, that is easily loaded into a pickup truck with two men and a hand truck. To unload, I simply slid it down the ramp without the hand truck. I singlehandedly slid it all around my garage for years until I put it on a small wooden platform with 4 wheels. It was really a home made furniture dolly, that found a new use after I moved. I'd think anything much bigger than a 10 kVA is overkill, unless the price is right. Mine was free, if you don't count the sweat equity in liberating it from the top of a pole.

--- On Fri, 3/5/10, Miles Mauldin <teslamiles@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Miles Mauldin <teslamiles@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [TCML] Pole Pig Question
> To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Friday, March 5, 2010, 8:06 AM
> What size is optium?  10kVA, 50,
> 75?  12.5kV or 14.4kV?  Seems to be a very large
> difference in physical size and weight; I am seeing 10kVA at
> 32" height and 280lbs up to 75kVA at 58" height and
> 675lbs.  Do you just man handle these around, or you guys
> have personal forklifts?  I eventually want to use a pig
> but didn't realize I'd have to become a weight lifter.
> 
> Should I really be looking at Potential Transformers
> instead?  Or Plate Transformers?
> 
> Thanks,
> Miles
> PS If this is in the archives somewhere feel free to point
> me there.
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