They just screwed up mains power in my lab.

VacuumVoodoo · Post by **VacuumVoodoo** » Thu May 15, 2014 6:25 pm

Power distribution company just replaced the 60 years old distribution transformer across the street with a new one. They never run any aging treatment on it except a 24 hrs burn-in and overload test. It still smells of fresh impregnation varnish.
Everything sounds raspy now. Even the digital TV looks like it was randomly missing every 17th bit in a pixel.
I want that good old trusty vintage power transformer back!!!

NickC · Post by **NickC** » Thu May 15, 2014 6:33 pm

Maybe we'd all be better off with Tesla's wireless power grid?

cbass · Post by **cbass** » Thu May 15, 2014 8:28 pm

Yeah that got shut down pretty quick once his backers figured out what his plan was.
Free power for everybody?How we gonna get rich off of free?

Leo_Gnardo · Post by **Leo_Gnardo** » Thu May 15, 2014 11:16 pm

VacuumVoodoo wrote: I want that good old trusty vintage power transformer back!!!

Find a nice big OLD 1:1 isolation xfmr & put it between that new one and your lab.

Structo · Post by **Structo** » Sun May 18, 2014 2:40 pm

Well they most likely did not use seasoned iron.

Make sure you use a $350 power cord on your amps.

Leo_Gnardo · Post by **Leo_Gnardo** » Sun May 18, 2014 2:56 pm

Structo wrote:Well they most likely did not use seasoned iron.

Make sure you use a $350 power cord on your amps.

Oh noes, that's the cheap stuff! $2500 and up, that's where the quality starts.

Oops, I mean kwality. We put the "K" in kwality.

Seasoned, doesn't that mean rusty? You can fake it by dusting the laminations with paprika. Now doesn't that taste better -

Structo · Post by **Structo** » Sun May 18, 2014 3:12 pm

Relic'd transformers?

Tonez for days.

ToneMerc · Post by **ToneMerc** » Sun May 18, 2014 3:30 pm

VacuumVoodoo wrote:Power distribution company just replaced the 60 years old distribution transformer across the street with a new one. They never run any aging treatment on it except a 24 hrs burn-in and overload test. It still smells of fresh impregnation varnish.
Everything sounds raspy now. Even the digital TV looks like it was randomly missing every 17th bit in a pixel.
I want that good old trusty vintage power transformer back!!!

It's the lack of PCB's in the new transfomer as the reason why your tone is now raspy. After a few surges and maybe a lightning strike or two, the iron will be properly seasoned and stress relieved.

TM

NickC · Post by **NickC** » Sun May 18, 2014 5:20 pm

Leo_Gnardo wrote: ...... dusting the laminations with paprika ..........

The paprika will make the tone savory ..... but to add a hint of sweetness you need to mix 50/50 with cinnamon.

YouTube · Post by **xtian** » Sun May 18, 2014 6:49 pm

ToneMerc wrote:It's the lack of PCB's in the new transfomer as the reason why your tone is now raspy.

You can either have tone and cancer, or no tone.

eniam rognab · Post by **eniam rognab** » Sun May 18, 2014 11:27 pm

what kind of cancer are we talking here? tonez are important things that we talk about, cancer is just a constellation or astrology gooble right?

(lights cigarette) global warming-polar vortex

we all know the red paint chips taste the best.....

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