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Old November 8th 05, 12:23 AM
Scott Dorsey
 
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Default Variable Regulated Tube Power Supplies.

wrote:

I would look at thrift stores like the Goodwill for an old colour TV
(tube type) and
salvage the power transformer out of it.


Sadly, most of those were hot chassis.

However, a very interesting device is the microwave oven transformer.
110V in, 1KV out, varying from half a kilowatt to a kilowatt. The
transformer core is split so you can easily take turns off to lower the
secondary voltage, too.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."