Re: New Neon Transformer Farm Found

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: New Neon Transformer Farm Found
From: Adam <adamsmith-at-mediaone-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 11:43:20 -0700
Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme


Keep in mind that in such a big pile of transformers, you're likely to have
some trannies with 277 volt primaries.  If you find some that appear to give
low output at 120vac input, this may be the reason.

-Adam
adamsmith-at-mediaone-dot-net

> After months of trying I finally got in the door today at Dixie Neon
> here in Charlotte. The guy I spoke with on the phone said "yea I have a
> couple of bad NST's that you can have if you want them".  I got there
> and found a full pallet of NST's.  I put 31 (yea thirty one) of them in
> my honda (It couldn't handle any more).  There are at least 10 maybe 15
> more there.  Joe (my contact) said that this stack is just since April
> of last year.  I did the grounding test on each one and found most
> (prob. 80+%) are OK.  I need to find a way to rate the voltage and
> amperage of each unit.  No tags on most due to warranty stuff.  I was
> told that the vast majority are 12KV or 15KV units.