[Amps] Pole pigs removed from oil ??

Ron Youvan ka4inm at gmail.com
Sat Nov 4 11:48:43 EDT 2017


On 11/04/2017 11:35 AM, Kevin Stover, AC0H wrote:

> I'm a little concerned about people just dumping the oil.
> Transformer oil is a famous source of PCB's. How old does a pole pig 
> have to be before you can safely say there are no PCB's in the oil?

   1978 and it was primarily used in situations where a non-flammable 
coolant was needed such as in buildings.
It was also used in oil filled capacitors.
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