Re: A possible GREAT find WOO HOO

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Dan,

The certainly do sound like big variac cores.  Probably like 240 VAC 30 amp
types.  Hopefully you can clean them up and get them to work.

If you want to send a picture as a file attachment to:

terry-at-hot-streamer-dot-com

It should show up in about 15 minutes at:

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/

Where everyone can see it.  Try to pick an unused file name ;-)

Cheers,

	Terry


At 11:48 AM 7/23/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi Folks,
>This is Dan, previously Dan_Gallagher-at-pulsartech-dot-com.
>
>Well anyway, I just found three HUGE donut shaped 11"
>diam. coils in the dumpster (30 lbs each). One has a
>wiper in the center. One is just the metal donut with
>the two windings (inner and outer) and no wiper. The
>third is destroyed but I can use the termination plate
>on the front of it. 1 to 1 windings and it LOOKS like
>they might be HEAVY variacs of the order of at least
>30A. On the wiper is a label that says don't move the
>wiper, let the motor move it. A guy here said they
>look like autotransformers of some sort. I'm also
>wondering if the wiper-less one can be used as a
>filter coil of some sort.
>
>Is there a way I could post a picture somewhere to get
>your opinion on these. I am very interested in your
>expert opinion. As you may not know, the variac is
>holding me up from moving forward. And if this is what
>it appears to be I'm in business and can go on to the
>next step in making my TC.
>
>Thank you very much, this is so incredibly exciting. I
>JUST got off the phone with the ol' ham guy who was
>"supposed" to be looking for a variac for me in his
>garage. Then this find in the dumpster. The TC gods
>may be on my side. At least you guys are. I am
>thankful for that.
>Dan Ft. Lauderdale
>
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