Re: bad pole xmfrs

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Original poster: Yurtle Turtle <yurtle_t-at-yahoo-dot-com> 

We actually had to "rescue" the poor thing with a
chainsaw and a handtruck. You might remember me asking
the list for ideas on how to lower it from the pole.
We finally just cut it down. After rolling it
cross-country, we pulled it into the truck with only 2
2x12's and the handtruck. The guy really earned his
pentium 200!

Actually, unloading it was a breeze! I simply slid it
down the 2x12's without the handtruck. The only hard
part was keeping the weight evenly distributed on the
two 2x12's.

I have no idea what it weighs, but since it has
aluminum windings, that may reduce it a pound or two.

The picture you probably saw with "25" was after I
repainted it and used Home Depot stickers. Here's the
"before" picture. I like the "25+":

http://www.hot-streamer-dot-com/adam/garage/pig_14.4kV_25kVA_1.jpg

Adam

--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
 > Original poster: DRIEBEN-at-midsouth.rr-dot-com
 >
 > Hi Adam, all,
 >
 > Nice find! I recall seeing pics of this pig on your
 > webpage and it
 > was clearly marked "25" on the front. I'll bet it
 > was a real challenge
 > for two people to load a 25 kVA pig (which I suppose
 > would have to
 > weigh in at 400 to 450 lbs minimum) into the back of
 > a pickup, un-
 > less you had access to an overhead hoist or a fork
 > lift to assist
 > in your lifting efforts. And UNLOADING it would be
 > an even bigger
 > challenge w/out mechanical assitance :^O.
 >
 > I'd have to agree with you 100% on the pig vs NST
 > farm issue. Even
 > with a huge NST farm that supposedly adds up to the
 > same kVA rating
 > as a single pig, the pig powered coil always seems
 > to outperform the
 > NST driven coil, espcially in the catagory of
 > streamer brightness!
 > And a pole pig dosen't even "break a sweat" running
 > a coil at or even
 > significantly above its nameplate rating. It seems
 > like I was told
 > that the utility power companies don't even consider
 > upgrading a
 > pole transformer to a larger unit unless the demand
 > on it consistant-
 > ly exceeds its rating by a factor of 80% (18 kVA
 > draw from a 10 kVA
 > pig). Someone correct me on that if I'm wrong on
 > that, but I do know
 > that a pig can be ran at 2 or even 3 times its
 > nameplate kVA rating
 > running a Tesla coil for short runs (<5 minutes -
 > not too many of
 > us are gonna run a coil for longer time intervals
 > than that, anyway).
 >
 > David Rieben
 >