Re: Cheap parts for high-power resistive ballast (for pole transformer). (fwd)

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Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 07:12:06 -0600
From: robert heidlebaugh <rheidlebaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Cheap parts for high-power resistive ballast (for pole
    transformer).

Check with your locsl appliance shop ,propane dealer, or plumber. When I had
a ranch I used old hot water heaters as feed troughs. I never had a shortage
of tanks or heating elements.
     Robert   H
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> From: "High Voltage list" <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 20:34:59 -0600 (MDT)
> To: hvlist <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Cheap parts for high-power resistive ballast (for pole
> transformer). (fwd)
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> Resent-Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 20:34:59 -0600 (MDT)
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> Original poster: <sroys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
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> Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 02:43:12 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Yurtle Turtle <yurtle_t@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Cheap parts for high-power resistive ballast (for pole
> transformer). (fwd)
> 
> Just look for stoves and/or water heaters (Not "hot
> water heaters". Why would you heat "hot water"?) on
> the side of the road.
> 
> Adam
> 
> --- High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Original poster: <sroys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> 
>> 
>> [Sorry for the delay in posting.  I was at a meeting
>> where I *thought* I
>> would have had access to the list, but actually
>> didn't.  SRR]
>> 
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>> Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 21:16:35 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: J. Aaron Holmes <jaholmes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Cheap parts for high-power resistive
>> ballast (for pole transformer).
>> 
>> Howdy, hvlist,
>> 
>> In addition to some Tesla coiling, I'd like to do
>> some
>> ridiculously high-powered Jacob's laddering :)  I'm
>> shooting for 30kVA.  Unfortunately, I don't feel
>> like
>> investing much (in time or money) in a big inductive
>> ballast.  Instead, I thought I'd just install six or
>> eight hot water heater elements in a cheap metal
>> trash
>> can (filled with water, of course), then use some
>> big
>> relays to put them all in parallel so that I could
>> fire the thing up with only a single element in
>> line,
>> then bring the others in one at a time until I'm
>> running at full throttle.  Sound workable?  I could
>> even install a faucet in the side of the trash can
>> so
>> that the thing could be made light and portable on
>> short notice (great for Teslathons).  Now on to the
>> question:  Is there something cheaper that might
>> provide the same functionality?  Amazingly, hot
>> water
>> heater elements appear to be relatively non-cheap.
>> I've seen a few tempting bulk lots go by on eBay,
>> but
>> they were threaded in an odd way that made me
>> suspect
>> they'd be difficult to work with.
>> 
>> Should I just get a spool of nichrome wire, some
>> cinder blocks, and a box fan? :))
>> 
>> 73,
>> Aaron, N7OE
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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