Re: Battery power for big SSTC

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Original poster: David Speck <dave-at-davidspeckmd-dot-org> 

Steve,
Funny you should mention it.  Friday night I scrapped out two solid state 
regulated power supplies rated at 0-16 V, 625 amps each, (that's 10 kW 
out!) at the local scrap dump.  Broke my heart to do it -- they were built 
in '92, and looked to be in fine shape.  Only problem was that they weighed 
upward of 500# each, and I had no way to move them intact.  Looked as 
though they had been pushed off the tail of a truck, so some of the sheet 
metal was bent, but all the parts were there.  The 440V, 23 Amps, 3 Phase 
input power would be a bit hard to come by, though.

If any one has an interest in one or both, write me off list for pickup in 
central NY.  I took them apart pretty clean -- every thing is color coded, 
and it wouldn't take more than a day or two to reassemble one or both of them.

Dave

>And that would be a nice power supply!  I would hate to have to recharge 
>it though :P