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

[BunnyKiller <bunnikillr@xxxxxxx>]

Hey David...

I may have you beat by just a little ;)  excluding the ballast, piggie, 
and ASRG ( which are in another case due to size and weight constraints)
got the quad stack 1256's motorized and controlled by a variac, 2 huge 
Comcor filters, 2 paralelling chokes, relays for momentary and constant 
on mode. The other side of the cabinet is set up for DC voltage 
consisting of delay timers to charge the cap bank ( about 96 400uF/400V 
electrolytics in paralell) during inital turn on, a massive full wave 
bridge, linear pass bank for current control, circuit breakers, and all 
sorts of volt and amp meters for both AC and DC monitoring. DC side was 
made to power a 5 Watt Argon laser.

BTW Dave, what type of wheels do you have on your case??  If mine ever 
goes astray and gets off of the plywood and if any of the wheels get in 
the grass/dirt, I damn near need a tow truck to get it back onto the 
wood....  Im thinking I may want to go to 8"X2" hard rubber wheels... 
presently I have 5"X1.5" hard rubber.

Scot D



David Rieben 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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