What is this???

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Original poster: "Paul Kidwell by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tmb-at-ieee-dot-org>

Hi Everybody,

I posted this to the HV list, but seeing that it's looking like a ballast 
and as
such will probably wind up being used on a coil I thought I'd re-post here so a
wider audience would see it....

-----Original Message-----
Anybody know what this is?

http://www.cpriii-dot-com/gg/victor/

The last shot shows the connections... the bottom left is the two AC
connections. Above them are three connections labeled L1, L2, & L3. They appear
to be taps of some sort. The incoming black AC wire is on the right AC 
terminal,
and has a wire running up to L3. To the right are two rows of four connections
labeled 1 thru 8. Connection 4 and 8 are tied together, and what looks to 
be the
remains of the output wiring is coming off 6 and 7.

I originally thought that it was a high voltage transformer, but now I'm 
leaning
towards ballast...

Anybody know how to use it?
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On further investigation, there are what appear to be 2 white wires coming off
terminal 7, a black wire coming off terminal 6, and a second black wire coming
off terminal 8.

I'll be taking an ohm meter to it tomorrow and trying a variac on the inputs
after that.

Paul
G-5 #3