Re: transformer

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Original poster: "David Rieben" <drieben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Godfrey,

O yes, I've seen it, but as always seems to be the case
on deals like this for me, it's waaayyy too far away from
me to make it practical for me to get it :^( At 800 lbs,
I'm sure that freight charges on shipping it from Washington
to Tennessee would be a king's ransome and that distance,
is far beyond practical for me picking it up myself.

I'd think that the 3 feet arc length claim is based on "drawing
out" the arc after initially "striking" the arc and at 20 kVA,
I'm pretty sure that wouldn't be a problem at all with 60 kV ;^)
I've drawn power arcs of this magnitude at 14.4 kV from a pole
pig by only lightly ballasting its low voltage input so that it would
draw ~ 200 amps or so when the arc was struck. It's pretty im-
pressive, but also quite dangerous :^0

David Rieben



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Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 11:28 PM
Subject: transformer


> Original poster: "Godfrey Loudner" <ggreen@xxxxxxxx>
>
>
> Checkout this incredible transformer. The seller claims that the arc can
> leap 3 feet, but that  seems impossible.
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290053173975
>
> Godfrey Loudner
>
>