Hello Paul,
You lot Stateside are very lucky being able to acquire these "pole
pigs". Here in the UK I have never, ever found a source for them, or
even found a linesman who knows what happens to old redundant ones.
Somewhere is a place where our old pole pigs retire, but it eludes me!
;) 2E0ILY
On Friday, November 3, 2017, you wrote:
> Back in the '90s I used two in parallel for my EME amplifier. It
> wasn't that I was running great power (1500W out) but they were 13.2
> kV pigs that I removed a bunch of wire from to get them down to
> where I had 4 kV DC. The HV winding was fairly small wire and so I
> had too much voltage drop under load with one. I removed those from
> oil myself. They took a while to stop dripping but always smelled
> kinda bad. Never had a problem with them.
> About 17 years ago I acquired a pole pig that had long since been
> removed from oil. No dripping, looked very dry, no smell. This was
> something around a 3-4 kV pig I think. A small amount of the HV
> winding had been removed but not much. I get about 4 kV DC and have
> been using this with multiple 1.5 kW out RF decks for 17 years. No
> problems yet.
> Paul N1BUG
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Best regards,
Chris mailto:chris@chriswilson.tv
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