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Re: Yes, yes...nice....but what can you do with it?
Hi Christopher
If it come from a solid state lighting control it's probably just a toroid coil
.I work for a TV station an in recent light control they use electronic
dimmer, same kind of circuit than house dimmer but bigger .
Luc Benard(Montreal)
Tesla list wrote:
> Original poster: "Christopher Boden" <chrisboden-at-hotmail-dot-com>
>
> After a recreational afternoon of dumpster diving....er.....creative
> resource allocation and recycling...yeah. We found a massive toroid core for
> a large Variac.
> It's about 1' in diameter, and about 2X3" in cross section. There are 3
> wires coming off. The wire gauge is about 12 or 14 and it weighs about 15-20
> pounds.
> There is ONLY the core and coil. No wiper, or mounts or anything.
> What can we do with it? Ideas?
>
> We also found a very nice motor driven Variac rated for 2500Watts at 120VAC.
> The motor control looks bent and destroyed, but the variac should be fine.
> Yippie!
>
> They both appear to be from the theatre dept. of our local Looniversity.
>
> Another toy we found *might* be usefull. It's another lighting control
> module, but this one is solid-state. We can identify almost all the parts
> with one exception. There is a 6" dia, 2"thick black disk shaped potted
> thingy (yes, that's a technical term) with 2 wires of about 18AWG coming out
> of the top. What is it? I'll try to dig up a part# if possible. Given it's
> application we may be able to make a few of these (there are at least 6 in
> the dumpster, we're making another trip) into a solid state TC control panel
> for the SAM upgrade to a 10kVA PIG system.
>
> Ideas?
>
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