Re: free large high voltage transformer (fwd)

[Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 23:18:57 -0500
From: Mark Broker <mbroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: free large high voltage transformer (fwd)

What's the VA rating?  What is the estimated weight?

[C'mon Mark...it's big and heavy and dangerous! ;-) If you're in the
Denver area, hie thee on over to Gomez' and grab it, then ask your
questions AFTER you've wrestled the pig into the back of your pickup and
you're sitting there wondering how in the blazes you and your wife will be
able to unload the thing without crushing someone in the process!!  And
the 23kV would be too low for xrays, particularly industrial strength.
I'd think that 75-100kV and up would be typical of an xray transformer.
SRR]

Mark Broker
Chief Engineer, The Geek Group

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 22:51:56 -0600 (MDT), High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Original poster: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>
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> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:25:32 -0600
> From: Gomez <gomez@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: free large high voltage transformer
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> I still have a big 23,000 volt transformer to get rid of.
> Oil filled steel tank.  Sits in custom heavy duty caster
> cart so it's easy to move around.  220-240 V input.  I think
> the previous owner said it came out of an industrial X-ray
> machine, not sure.  Voltage sounds a bit low for that.
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> Run a big Tesla coil with it, build a giant Jacob's Ladder,
> electrocute neighborhood squirrels with it, I don't care.
>
> Big enough to kill you instantly if you are careless, but
> I don't know the current rating and I don't feel like
> opening the tank to measure the cross section of the core.
>
> I will not crate or ship it anywhere, you need to pick it
> up in Denver.  Hey, it's free, whaddya want?  :P
>
> - Gomez
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> Everybody takes up space, but most bodies don't make their space very
> interesting.
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