Re: "Oven elements arent cheap"

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Subject: Re: "Oven elements arent cheap"
From: "Bill Noble" <william_b_noble-at-email.msn-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <terryf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 12:01:59 -0600
Approved: terryf-at-verinet-dot-com

actually, there are cheap ways of doing this - I have a small pile of 600
watt elements from a "baconizer" that were surplussed when the company
stopped making the machine - I'd happily sell them for a dollar or two
each - you can also use salt water for a variable resistor, you can use
headlamps from cars (30 amps, pretty much constant current) or a high
wattage stage lamp, you can get an old carbon pile from a theatre that has
modernized the equipment, and so on.

-----Original Message-----
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To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Date: Wednesday, September 09, 1998 5:24 PM
Subject: RE: "Oven elements arent cheap"


>Original Poster: "Gregory R. Hunter" <>
>
>I looked at hot water heater elements at "Home Depot" when I was in the USA
>in July.  They were $6.80 each for a 240V / 4500 Watt element.  Lower
>wattage ones were a little cheaper.  Of course, you'd need to submerge them
>in a bucket of water or oil.  My 5KVA pole pig is mostly empty space inside
>(I looked).  When I return to the US, I'm plan to ballast it by putting hot
>water heater elements right inside the upper part of the pig case, and then
>add enough mineral oil to submerge them.  My pig & ballast will be a single
>unit!
>