[Boatanchors] Re: How much does Henry weigh?

[GBrown]

Someone in your area must have an inductance checker, if not, there
available fairly cheap on the net. $50.00 range.
Regards,
Gary...WZ1M
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <StephenTetorka at cs.com>
To: <krkaplan at cox.net>; <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 11:29 PM
Subject: [Boatanchors] Re: How much does Henry weigh?


> Hi Ken:
>
> Yes, things like thinking while typing become more challenging with
age...as
> my notes shows.
>
> Kindly excuse me.
>
> I need an idea of the amp rating...it is apparently ?5 amps...with my
guess
> being that the "?" is a 2...thus I arrive at 0.25 amps.
>
> Soooo might a 15 Hy @ 0.25 amp choke weigh as much as 18 pounds or should
it
> be more like 1.8 pounds, say?
>
> Being a former specialty wire sales engineering...I'd have a darn better
idea
> if I could see the wire - but - this unit is completely enclosed.
>
> I put this question out there as I've read about folks ballparking
> transformer number based upon weight when no other data was to be had.
>
> Or to put it another way on this transformer question - what might be the
> range of inductance for power transformer windings with 115 primary and
say 800
> vct secondary and some filament taps too?  And could they be used as
chokes as
> I recall some folks saying.
>
> Tnx,
> Steve
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