Re: Westinghouse Transformers (newbee) (fwd)

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Westinghouse Transformers (newbee) (fwd)
From: Tesla List <mod1-at-pupman-dot-com>
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 22:25:20 -0700 (MST)
Approved: mod1-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com



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Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 16:25:34 -0800
From: Bert Hickman <bert.hickman-at-aquila-dot-com>
To: Tesla List <mod1-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: Westinghouse Transformers (newbee) (fwd)

Tesla List wrote:
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> Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 22:18:49 -0700
> From: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> To: testla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: Westinghouse Transformers (newbee)
> 
> > > Subject: Westinghouse Transformers (newbee)
> > Subject: Re: Westinghouse Transformers (newbee)
> > > Subject: Westinghouse Transformers (newbee)
> 
> Subscriber: unknown-at-apc-dot-net Wed Feb 19 22:06:29 1997
> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 23:56:19 -0800
> From: Open Minded <unknown-at-apc-dot-net>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: Westinghouse Transformers (newbee)
> 
> Tesla List wrote:
> >
> > > Subject: Westinghouse Transformers (newbee)
> >
> > Subscriber: bert.hickman-at-aquila-dot-com Mon Feb 17 14:22:39 1997
> > Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 06:58:17 -0800
> > From: Bert Hickman <bert.hickman-at-aquila-dot-com>
> > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> > Subject: Re: Westinghouse Transformers (newbee)
> >
> > Tesla List wrote:
> > >
<SNIP>
> >
> > Nicolas,
> >
> > Grab thoses puppies! They're potential transformers, precisely wound
> > instrumentation type transformers that work very nicely as mini-pole
> > pigs on Tesla Coils. The 120:1 is the ratio of input:output voltage.
> > Power companies use these to precisely measure high voltages by stepping
> > them down - 14,400 volts in divided by 12000 = 12- volts out. 

<SNIP>
> >
> > -- Bert --
> 
> Bert -
> 
> Shouldn't that be 14,400 / 120(ratio) = 120 volts out??? Boy, I'd
> love to have a TC power supply that ran on 12 volts...but I guess that
> would entail a bazillion amps on the line side though... ;-)
> 
>  - brent (bturner-at-apc-dot-net)

Whoops!! Excuuuuusssse me! :^) I have a "0" key that gets flakey -
sometimes it doesn't work, and other times it generates multiple zeros! 
Sorry 'bout that!! 

-- Bert --