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Subject: FW: Pigs
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From: "Zublin, Bryan (SD-MS)" <BZUBLIN-at-po1.GI.COM>
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 11:57:00 -0800 (PST)
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>What really got me excited was when they said that depending on
>who's there buying and what they're selling, the transformers could go
>for anywhere from $20 to $70! Even if they're off by a factor of 2, that
>still seems like a great deal to me.
That sounds about right. When I picked one up at the local San Diego Gas
and Electric repair yard, they were charging $3 per KVA. This was their
rate for "scrap metal", since they had so many of them. We paid $30 for a
10 KVA pole pig. Very heavy. A couple of years later we picked up a 100:1
potential transformer (1.5 KVA) which is much lighter and easier to move
(put wheels on it). I don't recall how much we paid (probably less than
$50).
Bryan Zublin
bzublin-at-gi-dot-com