On 10/21/11 8:42 AM, drieben wrote:
Haha, Thanks for the clarification, Phil. Yep, that word has the same meaning here on this side of the big pond, too. BTW, just from the photos on their website, those trans- formers look a whole lot like the solid state variety, which would red flag their eligibility for SG Tesla coil duty. Even here in the USA, the solid state HV power supplies are replacing the old style 60 Hz driven, non-GFI'd transformers for neon sign duty and the old style iron core units are becom- ing increasing difficult to find, although they are still showing up on eBay.
I think those are conventional core/coil, non electronic. It's hard to tell from the pictures because they don't give dimensions and mass (which would make it easy). I think you're being fooled by the stylish Italian packaging and design. No ugly square functional steel boxes full of tar here. Instead, a sleek package with minimum extra mass (reduce that shipping weight, if nothing else). Having been in Italy and seen neon signs with just this kind of package on them (but not been close enough to read the labels), I'll bet they're going to pass the Tuck test for core/coil vs electronic: they'd hurt if you dropped it on your stylishly shod foot. (one should curse volubly in Italian immediately after)
I have some Actown NSTs which are probably the same resin, but it's resin cast in a steel box. Probably to make the external form factor identical to the box o'tar we are so familiar with. And you can make them on the same 60 year old assembly line by replacing the tar pellet hopper with the resin hopper.. I'll bet it's a thermal curing resin, too, using the same oven on the assembly line: instead of melting the tar, it cures the resin.
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