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Re: Photo of my mystery transformer



Original poster: Bert Pool <lightnin_dude@xxxxxxxxxxx>

I once pulled a similar transformer from a military ground-based radar system.
I had it rewound to a different turns ratio. It was filled with oil, and strangely, thousands of tiny ceramic balls which were used to take up space to reduce total amount of oil required. If your transformer has the ceramic balls, turning the transformer over on it's side should allow you to hear them slide around inside.

This transformer looks like it would probably make an awesome Tesla coil transformer!

Bert


At 12:30 PM 12/1/2006 -0700, you wrote:
Original poster: "Josh Adams" <knewter@xxxxxxxxx>

<http://flickr.com/photos/knewter/310977851/in/set-72157594400131325/>http://flickr.com/photos/knewter/310977851/in/set-72157594400131325/

There it is. To ease anyone's concerns for my safety, trust that I'm not turning anything on until I'm certain I won't be dying afterwards. I'm trying to gradually get back into the HV stuff, I've been out of it for five years...had to go on a math kick for a bit.

So anyone have any idea what this transformer was for? I don't know, but it has those five taps on the primary to let you vary the voltage output, which is nice. I don't know if it's in working order yet, but it's full of oil and not resin (yeah, yeah, the oil's probably nothing but PCBs waiting to get all up on me...), so I should be able to muck around with it if not. I have no reason to think it isn't, though.

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-josh
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