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would anyone here sell me a pole pig? i am in need of one, i am selling some of my fav things to raise money and have so far come up with 140. i would like to have a 5 Kva 2 bushing 14.4kv unit and if anyone can help me get one that would be great, i will try and come up with more money if needed.
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Not to rain on your thread but do you have an idea of the weight/size of pole pigs? It could easily weigh like 200+lbs, and that shipping will really be a pain.
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i have somone in texas and i can get shipping down to 191.84 so idk but yes i know these sob's are probably hella heavy, is anyone on here in southern utah or california or nevada or northern arizona?
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haha yeh mots would work, but also, sometimes a power company will give you one, its a small chance, but call em up if you havent already, explain your problem, ask if theyve got any old units they would be willing to donate for experimentation and exclaim that you can practice safety!
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i tried mots and they got messed up and i have wanted a pig fo the longest time and ill try power company again so ill let anyone know im still looking cuz power company closed sunday how should i go about asking for one, especially me being 16, over the fone tho i got a deep voice :P well any help would be appreciated on the old site there was a link to an ebay page would anyone happen to have it? they were pigs for 300 and free shipping to some places
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ya i know,. as far aws me moving goes my parents would be ok with a pig staying with them and all, so i wouldnt get rid of it, good idea with the core thing, and thanks for helpin me so far
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I bought my pole pig online from a company called austin international. You might try a search, its been a few years though. I paid $75 for 10kVA 20kV single pole distro xfrmer. Shipping should have been about $150 but they quoted me $75 and I held em to it (a few phone calls). Just a word of advice... make sure you really need one! There extremely cumbersome, dangerous, and you need to have something to plug em into. I had mine in my dads garage wich he was still wiring. I slapped in a 100A 220V breaker and wired the leads straight into the breaker and used it as my on/off switch. Your electric oven plug or perhaps dryer plug may work for low power levels 20/30A ish. Also, if youre using it for tesla coils, jacob's ladders, or other things wich cause an electrical short to be seen by the supply then you need to ballast it. I had an old 275A arc welder I wired in series with the pole pig for variable ballast. After I bough it I have never really used it either. Its just too big for anything. I have yet to build a tesla coil that could take advantage of such power. I have used it just once, making a large jacobs ladder. It was just a one time thing though, not really convinient having to wire it straight into the panel box. Some day I'll use it I hope.
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I see a death and a lawsuit coming.
16 is way too young to be 'playing' with this kind of power. Hell, I have a PT, 27, and have the fear of God in me about working with it, and I'm not even religous!
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