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Arcstarter

Thu Oct 02 2008, 10:14PM

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Well, i found an old and light pole pig down the street from me. I can almost lift it off the ground. I think it is 5kva and i am unsure of voltage. This is the only good thing that came out of the hurricane.... I am going to have to put it on a dolly and pull it over a hill about as tall as me.. I think it is 6 blocks away. Alot of the pigs i have seen around here are 7.2kv's so that is prolly what it will be. Wish me luck!!

Dragon64

Thu Oct 02 2008, 11:07PM

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Well, theres one good thing about hurrican.

Falling Pole Pigs from sky!

Myke

Fri Oct 03 2008, 01:16AM

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Good luck with getting the pole pig. I hope it still works. You are so lucky your parents are letting you get a pole pig.

Hazmatt_(The Underdog)

Fri Oct 03 2008, 08:15AM

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I should probably tell you this, taking something that isn't yours in the aftermath of a hurricane is considered looting and very illegal! If the police find you doing this they may let you off with a warning, but if you're prosecuted you may find yourself dealing with a nasty charge like a felony, in which case you will never be able to have any real job for the rest of your life.

So I would probably consider your options carefully.

Kizmo

Fri Oct 03 2008, 11:09AM

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You could just ask if they let you have one? I guess electric company has a lot of functional but slightly damaged (dented case..) pigs to be trashed after that hurricane. At least you wont loose anything if you just ask :)

Arcstarter

Fri Oct 03 2008, 03:26PM

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Hazmatt_(The Underdog) wrote ...

I should probably tell you this, taking something that isn't yours in the aftermath of a hurricane is considered looting and very illegal! If the police find you doing this they may let you off with a warning, but if you're prosecuted you may find yourself dealing with a nasty charge like a felony, in which case you will never be able to have any real job for the rest of your life.

So I would probably consider your options carefully.

Oh sh$#!!!! I already got it.... I feel bad now... It was on the side of the street in a trash pile, there was a bunch of them..

Forget it i already have it, i am not going to feel bad about this! I am excited. I passed up an entergy truck and the man saw me and he didn't care.

PICTURES!!

I ballasted it with my 720va nst and i got some nice juicy arcs!

Myke

Sat Oct 04 2008, 12:49AM

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Now what you can do is strip off the paint and rust and repaint it to make it look nicer. Then you can make it any other color. hehe.

aonomus

Sat Oct 04 2008, 01:32AM

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Make sure that there is no internal damage before bothering to strip and repaint. The reason why they tossed the polepigs might have been internal insulation failure due to lightning strikes or the like, might as well open it up no?

Arcstarter

Sat Oct 04 2008, 03:08AM

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aonomus wrote ...

Make sure that there is no internal damage before bothering to strip and repaint. The reason why they tossed the polepigs might have been internal insulation failure due to lightning strikes or the like, might as well open it up no?

Good idea.. Can you tell me what to look for.

J. Aaron Holmes

Sat Oct 04 2008, 05:25AM

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Arcstarter wrote ...

Good idea.. Can you tell me what to look for.

Congrats, I suppose, on the ill-gotten pig. Hopefully it is not missed!

Take the lid off and post a picture of the innards. Remove the screw on the lid ring, then remove the ring. They come off pretty easily; it's getting them back on that's the trick! Place a sawhorse or some other surface behind the pig (where the mounting brackets are) that's about as tall as the pig is. Lift the lid just enough to get it free, then rotate it around so that most of it is sticking off the back of the pig and sitting on the sawhorse or whatever surface you provided. Letting the lid hang without anything supporting it could be hard on the connection between the HV lead and the transformer, or else you may be surprised to find that the HV lead is meant to disconnect easily from the top of the transformer, in which case relying on this could mean that the lid suddenly falls to the floor and gets all dented up, you end up with broken ceramic, etc. That would be most uncool. I have a pole pig with clip-in HV sockets mounted to the core.

If things don't look seriously out-of-place inside, the oil isn't filled with muck or other suspended material, etc., just fire it up! Stick a shorted NST or light bulb or heater (i.e., some dirt-simple, low-power ballast) in series with the LV, form a small spark gap between HV terminal and can, stand back, add juice

I'm guessing by the bushing size that this is a 7.2kV unit like you expected.

Cheers,
Aaron, N7OE

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