Re: What is this??? (fwd)

[Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 09:42:59 -0600
From: Gomez <gomez@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: What is this??? (fwd)

On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 08:18  AM, High Voltage list wrote:

> Original poster: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>
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> Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 22:54:26 -0400
> From: Paul Kidwell <tmb@xxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: What is this???
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> Anybody know what this is?

Yes.  That would be an antique.  It probably isn't worth nothing.  You
should give it to me.  :)

> http://www.cpriii.com/gg/victor/

But seriously... it's an interesting and delightful old piece of
hardware.

> The last shot shows the connections... the bottom left is the two AC
> connections. Above them are three connections labeled L1, L2, & L3.

Three phase, one would assume.

> I originally thought that it was a high voltage transformer, but now
> I'm leaning
> towards ballast...

  There's not a lot of difference between a ballast and a transformer,
ya know - the
former is just a specialized instance of the latter.  Look for current
limiting gaps
in the core.  I don't see any, so I'm leaning toward "basic power
transformer".