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Re: Avalon
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>I think you may want to stop and think about the magnitude of this; at
>250kVA you need a dedicated feed, your own substation. While scrap pigs are
>cheap and easy to get hold of for low power coils the power utility is not
>gonna let you connect them to its network. So you have to buy a new 250kVA
>substation, hire the low loaders to install it, pay the engineers at $500
>per day, have properly engineered switch gear, breakers with current
>certificates etc.
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>Basically if you want to run 1/4 of a megawatt the power company will want to
>know what you want to do with it, what sort of duty cycle you'll take, what
>power factor your load is, make darn sure no rf goes back into the lines.
>And unless you feel like doing a few years training you have to pay a lot of
>high power EEs to do this all because no power or insrance company will
>touch you with a barge pole unless ALL the work was carried out by a
>properly qualified and experienced engineer.
Most of these problems would go away if you bought or hired a
generator.
Looking through some industrial machinery ads indicates that you could
probably get a used 300KVA unit for under $10K , and that;s before you
start talking about sponsorship etc.