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Re: deceptive transformer
Original poster: "Hydrogen18" <hydrogen18-at-hydrogen18-dot-com>
No, please dont say it's so! They even put switching psu's in MO's now? Are
the magnetrons designed for the HF also?
---Eric
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Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 3:19 PM
Subject: Re: deceptive transformer
> Original poster: "Virtualgod" <mike.marcum-at-zoomtown-dot-com>
>
> That's not gonna help the price either with mots going extinct. Anyone try
> making a dc resonant coil with one of those inverter supplies yet? Freq is
> probably way too high to make the usual ac coil practical (no 50,000 bps
> caps to be found).
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 12:11 PM
> Subject: Re: deceptive transformer
>
>
> > Original poster: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>
> >
> > Also, trash picking or consumer electronics dismantling as well as
> storing,
> > packing, and shipping, takes time. One does pay for convenience and/or
> > time.
> >
> > Actually, though, the intriguing thing about the newer microwaves is
the
> > inverter power supply!
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> > To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 4:40 PM
> > Subject: RE: deceptive transformer
> >
> >
> > > Original poster: "Steve Conner" <steve.conner-at-optosci-dot-com>
> > >
> > > >66$ for a mot is cheap. New MOTs are 80-100$ AFAIK
> > >
> > > Last time I looked, it was possible to buy a brand new microwave
oven
> for
> > 35
> > > UK Pounds. That's about $52. In fact it's probably less, since
consumer
> > > electronics are often "dollar for pound."
> > >
> > > Still, I don't blame (much) the seller for trying to make a buck, I
> blame
> > > the poor gimp who paid $66 for a transformer he could have bought
brand
> > new
> > > for $52, or trash-picked for free. Caveat emptor etc. It's not
really
> any
> > > worse than paying $100 for a pair of sneakers that cost $5 to
> manufacture
> > in
> > > Thailand...
> > >
> > > Steve C.
> > >