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Re: transformers
In a message dated 96-04-24 22:48:37 EDT, you write:
>To: tesla-at-grendel.objinc-dot-com
>Subject: transformers
>
>Hello all,
>I ran across 3 transformers in steel cabinets and wondered if anyone knows
>if they are of any use for tesla apps. or what? The info plate says:
>
>SHAPE MAGNETRONICS (Lombard Ill.)
>model CLT-5000-CBB
>HZ 60
>Vin 120/208/240 Iin 59/34/29.4
>Vout 120/240 Iout 41.6/20.8
>
>The trannys themselves are about 10" square and weigh at least 70 lbs.
>Inside the cabinet, I could just make out some caps. (about 6 of 'em) that
>were 7" tall tubular and 1.5-1.75" dia. There were no big insulators or
>anything to indicate high voltage on the caps or the transformers. That's
>about all the info I could get; Anybody know what they are? The guy'll hold
>'em till I call, otherwise they be junked out.
>
> Ken Cravens
Ken,
They sound like isolation transformers. V out = V in. Somebody might want
them but I can't think of a Tesla coil application.
Ed Sonderman