[TCML] pole pigs from Gustav

Tesla tesla at tezla.com
Sat Sep 13 01:09:55 MDT 2008


At 04:12 2008-09-13, you wrote:
>Hello all.
>
>I survived the hurricane. It hit Baton Rouge hard.  I got power back 
>after twelve days.
>It sure is good to have air conditioning back;  I am an hvac tech 
>and it grew old quickly
>to work all day in the heat and come home to a hot house.
>
>There was an abundance of pole transformers scattering the 
>landscape, so I had a look
>at them.  All of them that I looked at were labled:
>H.V. 7620 / 13200Y
>L.V. 120 / 240
>
>I passed them up because I believe that these are not suitable for 
>Tesla coil service
>(too low of a primary voltage).  Am I correct?  Or did I pass up 
>some good finds?

Seems to me that they would work just fine for Tesla coils. Guess you 
just passed up some
good transformers there.

/Matt 



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