RE: [TCML] Re: Coil Died

["Dave Halliday" <dh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The early archives are from the Tesla list on FidoNet.

http://www.fidonet.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet

I ran what grew into a large 12 line BBS in Seattle from 1987 to 1997.

Predates affordable personal internet connectivity. My last coupe of years,
I did offer internet email -- the software would store the emails and
forward them via dial-up to my ISP four times/day. Fun times!

Dave

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Lux
> Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 14:58
> To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [TCML] Re: Coil Died
> 
> On 10/20/13 12:02 PM, David Rieben wrote:
> > Huh? Readily available? Although I may have personally 
> found pole pigs a little
> > out of reach back in the 80's and 90's, they certainly were 
> just as accessible back
> > then as now, if not more so.
> 
> What's changed is the internet, and lists like this one, so you can 
> *find* places like T&R.   Back in the 80s, you had to know 
> someone who 
> knew how to get them.  I knew someone at my work who was 
> willing to go 
> out and saw down poles with transformers on them (likely 
> killing himself 
> in the process, or starting a brush fire, or worse).
> 
> 
> T&R Electric was still readily selling their transformers
> > to the general coiling community, now they won't.
> 
> 
> And that's sort of a bad aspect to internets..
> 
> 
>   And all of the MOTs that were
> > gutted from microwave ovens were still "real transformer" 
> iron core units, as op-
> > posed to the SS inverters in newer model microwaves. BTW, 
> iron cored NSTs
> > are becoming increasingly scarce, due to the influx os SS 
> drivers in the newer units.
> 
> And that will drive us TCers..
> 
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