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Parmeko Neptune Heater Transformer £4.99 (US$ 7.95 / EUR 5.44/ 46 NOK) Primaries 220v or 0-1-5-117-128v. Secondaries 6.3v at 4A, 2.5v at 5A and 0-2.5-220v at 10ma. Internal screen fitted. Supplied with mounting bolts.
As most here will know, Parmeko is the Rolls-Royce of oil-filled transformers, and I had put £20 on each with no particular hope of winning - but no one else bid at all!
I can only think it must be the recession, or what Sheakespeare calls "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune."
- the Parmeko Neptune series
They're already in nice condition, but when I've repainted them in glossy Parmeko black and cleaned up the terminals with braid and snort pump they'll be absolutely gorgeous. And the 2.5V windings are just what one needs for many of the thyratrons so dear to my heart!
Oh I am pleased, and just after I'd finished my Dominos Pizza and a bottle of lovely cold Bud and thinking about all the ideas I got earlier from Doc Electrons - what a cracking evening this has turned out to be!
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There's a UK ebay dealer called "Michael's Emporium" who sells all sorts of interesting vintage stuff for high prices, and he always has Parmeko Neptune transformers and chokes for between about 50 and 100 EUR - so expensive that I'm amazed anyone buys them, but they do because of the Parmeko reputation for extreme quality and robustness. I'd guess that Michael (who also trades under the name Colomor Valves) would have wanted about 60 EUR for the heater transformer, and as much as 100 EUR for the big fat swinging choke, because they are very hard items to get hold of nowadays in sizes of this sort.
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I've seen a pair of Parmeko output transformers go for over £500 on Ebay. The parts you got are of no interest to audiophiles, so that's why you got a good deal.
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Steve McConner wrote ...
I've seen a pair of Parmeko output transformers go for over £500 on Ebay. The parts you got are of no interest to audiophiles, so that's why you got a good deal.
They still have to heater transformers and HT chokes, don't they, Steve? (Or perhaps not! Heaven knows what they do in their world of strange beliefs about the 'open sound' of oxygen free silver plated pure copper interconnects and all the rest
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Wunderbar! Ebay Jackpot.
