Re: [TCML] Quadruple stack of 1156 or 1256 Superior Variac

["Phillip Slawinski" <pslawinski@xxxxxxxxx>]

I bet Kevin Eldridge has you beat.  I've seen videos of his setup, it's
massive.

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 07:17, David Rieben <drieben@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Jim,
>
> Yes, I got an even better find than that when I got my
> quad-stack 1256Ds a few years ago. Came with the
> balancing chokes and the cabinet in which they were
> mounted for $295 - about 630 lbs, total, including the
> pallet. Got a deal on the freight charges too, only ran
> me about $125. I employed this variac setup into my
> Green Monster control panel and have never even
> been able to get them the slightest bit warm, as I do
> happen to "need" 31.4 kVA (;^). I love 'em and know
> that I will probably never find another "deal" to beat
> the one that I got on these. As a matter of fact, I still
> have the empty cabinet in which they were mounted
> sitting in my back yard - don't really have any current
> use for it as I mounted the variacs into my own pre-
> viously existing control panel cabinet.
>
> BTW, I wonder if any other hobby coiler has a more
> massive SINGLE unit control panel than mine (exclu-
> ding the "pros",  i.e. KVA Effects, LOD, ect.) It contains
> the quad-stack variac, the ~75 lbs. ballast choke, AND
> the fully tanked 10 kVA pole pig, as well as the ARSG
> variac and associated control circuitry! Estimate it to
> weigh in the 1200 to 1300 lb. range!
>
> David Rieben
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Mora" <wavetuner@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "'Tesla Coil Mailing List'" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 2:28 AM
> Subject: [TCML] Quadruple stack of 1156 or 1256 Superior Variac
>
>
>
>  Hi Group,
>>
>> There is a quad stack of Superior variacs on Ebay sans drive motor. It has
>> 4
>> balancing chokes too. $499.00 / offer By Cleveland, OH. Quite a find!
>> Break
>> it down and sell some to the group and get your money back! 270307825808
>> Unless of course you need 31.4 KVA ;-))
>>
>> Jim Mora
>>
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