Re: bad pole xmfrs

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Original poster: DRIEBEN-at-midsouth.rr-dot-com 

Hi Adam, all,

Nice find! I recall seeing pics of this pig on your webpage and it
was clearly marked "25" on the front. I'll bet it was a real challenge
for two people to load a 25 kVA pig (which I suppose would have to
weigh in at 400 to 450 lbs minimum) into the back of a pickup, un-
less you had access to an overhead hoist or a fork lift to assist
in your lifting efforts. And UNLOADING it would be an even bigger
challenge w/out mechanical assitance :^O.

I'd have to agree with you 100% on the pig vs NST farm issue. Even
with a huge NST farm that supposedly adds up to the same kVA rating
as a single pig, the pig powered coil always seems to outperform the
NST driven coil, espcially in the catagory of streamer brightness!
And a pole pig dosen't even "break a sweat" running a coil at or even
significantly above its nameplate rating. It seems like I was told
that the utility power companies don't even consider upgrading a
pole transformer to a larger unit unless the demand on it consistant-
ly exceeds its rating by a factor of 80% (18 kVA draw from a 10 kVA
pig). Someone correct me on that if I'm wrong on that, but I do know
that a pig can be ran at 2 or even 3 times its nameplate kVA rating
running a Tesla coil for short runs (<5 minutes - not too many of
us are gonna run a coil for longer time intervals than that, anyway).

David Rieben

----- Original Message -----
From: Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Date: Friday, April 9, 2004 8:53 am
Subject: Re: bad pole xmfrs

 > Original poster: Yurtle Turtle <yurtle_t-at-yahoo-dot-com>
 >
 > Well, my 14.4kV 25 kVA pig cost nothing. For
 > "shipping", I paid someone a used 200 MHz Intel CPU to
 > help load it onto my pickup. At the time, he was
 > running a 166, which died, so it was a BIG step up!
 >
 > As to a pig's appeal, I've run my two coils with nst's
 > (including a 15/120), a pt and a pig. Even ballasting
 > my pig to "roughly" the same power, it just "seems" to
 > have much more Uumph with the pig. Not to mention that
 > you can probably run the pig at several times the
 > power rating for short runs. Plus it just looks cool!
 >
 > Adam
 >
 > --- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
 > > Original poster: "Richard Modistach"
 > > <hambone-at-dodo-dot-com.au>
 > >
 > > that's one spiffy chunk of pork,
 > > but when i think about it the
 > > 4x11\100nst's i'm getting new surplus
 > > for 200$au
 > > will 'nearly' match it and are already
 > > current limited and a lot easier to handle.
 > > could get an extra one but new non surplus
 > > for anothe 200$, where does one stop,
 > > something appealing about a clutch of piglets.
 > > one thing i've noticed is the extrordinary
 > > freight costs you guys pay in the states, over here
 > > freight is cheap as buggery, i got a 500kg item
 > > shipped from sydney, over 1200km, for 120$au
 > > and that's picked up from the vendor and
 > > forklifted into my shed.
 > >
 > > regards
 > > richard
 > > aus
 > >
 > > ----- Original Message -----
 > > From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 > > To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 > > Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 10:30 AM
 > > Subject: Re: bad pole xmfrs
 > >
 >
 >
 >