/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>436696

Well, I have been brewing for over 20 years and attended the oldest brewing school in the US in a partnership program with a top German brewing school out of Munich.

Also, My grandfather was a winemaker as well as being quite the experimenter, he actually made wine from everything he could find just for kicks. He even made wine from tomatoes once and told me that it tasted like battery acid, hence my comment.

So, I may know a thing or two about this.

>>436666
Nope, but great for control circuits if they all have continuity. The added two taps on the secondary make it pretty easy to adjust to a wide variety of circuits. Do you own a multimeter, megger, continuity tester, etc? you could always build a simple test light to check them. Establishing that the coils have continuity will help you sell them. If the varnish is damaged and there are any internal shorts, then they are scrap (but these puppies have tons of copper in them and copper pays fairly well in the scrap market)

>>435621
>Meaning you don't even know.

Yeah, and I don't know what shit and rat poison taste like either, but I'm not stupid enough to find out.

Ask yourself how many fermented products using tomatoes are on the market and you might conclude that there is a reason why.

just a thought, a friend of mine made a similar find not too long ago, he cut the whole damn thing in half and mounted it on two walls next to a corner and called it bar. It was actually kinda cool, different style boat though, much more narrow.

Just an idea for free/junk boat hulls

Zoneline unit probably. Start removing covers until you find a brand/manufacturer/nameplate and then start googling for parts/replacement.

Shouldn't be terrible to replace, they are made to fail.

>>436658
OK so then I forgot the damn diagram..oops.

Here it is.

>>436655
OK, so they are the control transformers from elevator motors, I'm betting they're pretty heavy.

I am attaching a motor control diagram so you can get an idea of how these are wired in a circuit. You will notice in the diagram that there is a jumper wire from H3 to H2 , which makes a series connection of the main coil. The secondary coil only has X1 and X2 in this case to supply 120 volts to the control circuit. Since yours is multi tapped (X1, X2, X3, X4) it can be wired in series or parallel to get various induced voltages on the control side.

The question you really need to know about selling these is do they still work? That's going to make the difference between scrap price and component price. Otherwise, they make great paper weights

>>436614
My guess it that it was used in a control panel of some sort such as a 3 phase motor control circuit, this is the type of thing you see that runs off of a power circuit (3 phase, but typically only wired to L1 and L3) in order to provide power to the control circuit (which can be any voltage that your control components are rated for). You will notice that both sides are multi-tapped, so that means that the voltages on either side can be split at various points.

What did these come out of OP?

>>436440
OK, so you're looking at a 440 to 101 volt step down transformer rated at 550 VA (which is essentially watts in this case) and it works with either 50 or 60 Hertz frequency. I'll be back later with more details, my children are killing each other and I must stop them....

>>436228
no problem, but that will tell us what we are dealing with here.

>>435397
Osage orange is supposed to be one of the very best woods to craft a bow from, I haven't tried but I do have some Osage trees and I looked into this before.

>>436221
jacob's ladder, tesla coils, that kind of stuff.

all depends on the type of transformer, got any nameplates on those puppies? Most industrial transformers have a nameplate (though they do suffer from heat and years of wear)

>>435803
amp draw actually drops as the fan moves less air. Less work = less amp draw. The fan is not actually working harder, it's working less than before.

I didn't believe it until I tried, but get out your amp clamp and try guys, get a reading with the fan running normally and then block the intake entirely (plywood or similar) and check your amp draw again....it's interesting stuff.

>>436202
your "wine making kit" didn't come with a grape extract? then go to a homebrew shop and buy some...otherwise you will be wasting your time and money.

>>436216
he doesn't even know what a transformer is...what the hell is he going to do with an arc welder?

ebay or scrapyard, or ship them to me, I have a project in mind....

>>436088
What you have there is a firewood starter kit, just add more wood and someday you might have an entire face cord. Split it for faster drying times.

>>435426
find a trade school, like the local community college. They probably have an apprenticeship program like the JATC or similar

>>435604
Yeah seriously wrong....must taste like battery acid.

If you're going for potency, pick up champagne yeast, it doesn't autolyze at higher alcohol concentrations. My last mead reached 21%.

This >>432989
refers to this >>432978

No, I never said that. Read the post I was referring to to understand what I was saying.

Working as an electrician in America actually requires extensive training.

>>432973
Fair enough, I will try something, I just wanted to get a rough idea of what people had used in the past vs. what results they got.

I've seen some things on teh netz that I don't fully trust (with good reason). so I thought I would put the idea out here to maybe get a head start on my plan.

I will now go rummage in my garage to find the parts I know are hiding in my "treasure trove" out there....

>>432082
>We should have been given the book with all the standards from the start
It's called the National Electric Code (or the NEC) and it's published by the NFPA. Anyone can buy one, but nobody's going to "give" you one. Most people couldn't even figure out how to read it properly anyway.

>>431921
terminations should come into play here as well, not just wires.

Thinking of building a tesla coil or a jacob's ladder just for fun. Anyone here ever built one?

what size transformer did you use?
what basic materials?
anything you learned?
got pics?