RE: PDT (Pig) failure modes (fwd)

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Original poster: "Dave Hartwick by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <ddhartwick-at-earthlink-dot-net>

My guess is that they shipped that unit to me in the same condition in which
they received it.
Dave

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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 21:37:33 -0500
From: Crow Leader <tesla-at-lists.symmetric-dot-net>
To: Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: PDT (Pig) failure modes

It does not sound like a water filled transformer supplier is reliable. I
tried to order from them before and the best answer as to age and condition
was "some look new".


KEN
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Subject: Re: PDT (Pig) failure modes


> Original poster: "Steve White by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<slwhite-at-zeus.ia-dot-net>
>
> Just a note of caution. Since T&R again seems to be willing to sell pigs
for
> Tesla coil use, let us be careful not to antagonize them by asking for
> replacements, etc.. Even though the transformer may have indeed been
> defective, I think it would be wiser just to eat one every now and then
than
> to beat up on them because one of their tranformers failed under Tesla
coil
> duty. I bought mine from T&R about a year ago and I want to keep them as a
> reliable supplier.
>
> Steve: Coiling in Iowa
>