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Troy,
Unfortunately there is no good, regular supplier of NST's and / or
OBITS in the UK that I know of.
It would be well worth asking on the UK mailing list
tcbouklist-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:tcbouklist-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> for pre loved transformers
and you may get other answers from some of the other UK coilers who lurk
here to.
All of my NST's have been from sign makers who have replaced neon
signs with LED, but even that supply has dried up recently. Might be
worth perusing though.
OBits are still available and hunting around boiler manufacturers
for scrapped/replacement units is probably the way to go. Otherwise
there are plenty of MOT's out there.
Cheers
Derek
On 07-Sep-16 13:50, Chip Atkinson wrote:
Re-posted on Troy's behalf.
Chip
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Hi All,
It's been many, many years since I've posted to this list. I'm
originally from Canada, and I built a number of coils there over the
years, my first being in about 1998 or so... All of them have been
OBIT and NST based SGTCs.
Anyway, I moved to the UK about 6 years ago and I'm interested in
putting together a small TC here. My first coil was with an OBIT and
ideally that's what I'm thinking for this one... Or something around
200-300 watts. But where does one go to find high voltage transformers
in this country? Neon Sign transformers seem to be very difficult to
come by here. I've found some online sellers that seem to still be
selling brand new non-electronic transformers but they're awfully
expensive. It was easy to acquire used NSTs and OBITS back in Canada.
I have not been able to find any on E-bay even... At least none that
are located in the UK and rated for 230v.
I've been considering a DRSSTC, but so far I've had limited success
with sstcs... I'd like to put together a good old fashioned small SGTC
first and then make another attempt at an SSTC or DRSSTC.