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

["David Rieben" <drieben@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Phillip,

True enough, Kevin Eldredge definitely has a larger
Tesla coil SYSTEM than I could ever dream of.
However my qualifier was the SINGLE UNIT con-
trol panel. If I'm not mistaken, Kevin has his pole
pig(s) on a seperate cart from his main control
panel. What I'm getting at is that I haven't seen
(or at least noticed) a large scale Tesla coil assem-
bly, besides mine and maybe DC Cox's Big Brui-
ser control panel, that has the entire control pa-
nel assembly (including the power transformer)
in a SINGLE unit. Then again, I also stated
"excluding the pros" so I'm not sure that DC's
BB control panel should count here, either.

David




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phillip Slawinski" <pslawinski@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 7:36 AM
Subject: Re: [TCML] Quadruple stack of 1156 or 1256 Superior Variac


> 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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