[Amps] Pole pigs removed from oil ??

[Chris Wilson]

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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