What do you think these big boys were used for?

[T3sl4co1l]

That's a criminal price..

You might as well build up a proper naval railgun with those, well, if not for the sheer volume of copper you need to wire everything together...!

Tim

[longh]

More insane stuff for sale near me. This one from Jefferson Lab

https://www.publicsurplus.com/sms/auction/view?auc=3196044

Maybe I could use a new power supply, 830V ok maybe I could find a use for that.
Wait, 320A! This is a 256.6KW power supply....

[PA0PBZ]

Looks like pool heaters: flow rate 32l/min, temp increase 10C 

[rstofer]

General Atomics is a big deal in San Diego.  They do a lot of research on fusion reactions.  At one time, they were spinning a large motor and used the stored energy of the rotor to create a pulse by shorting the windings.  The lab setup was pretty interesting.

So, now they use capacitors, no doubt trying the same type of experiment.

https://www.ga.com/

[longh]

Lol, there are 8 of these power supplies and the bid is $100. Also, they weigh 1300kg each. I wish the picture showed more than just the dataplate.

So we are talking about 10,400kg of power supplies for sale. With copper $3/lb now I bet someone with a truck capable of moving them could make a lot of money.

-Hunter

[longh]

Oh cool, there is a schematic and presentation about them on Jefferson Lab's website: https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/images/e/e5/Danfysik_Supplies.pdf

[tom66]

Maybe I could use a new power supply, 830V ok maybe I could find a use for that.
Wait, 320A! This is a 256.6KW power supply....

Build your own Tesla supercharger!

[longh]

Apparently the supplies can regulate current to 10ppm. Here is the schematic.



It is tempting, but my pickup could only carry the weight of 1 at a time. Not sure about their volume. But it is like 2 hours away from me. And taking them straight to a local scrapyard seems sad.

[Vgkid]

Damn , those Danphysik psu's are only 25 minutes away from my house...
Unfortunately too heavy for my car.

[Brumby]

Hire a truck.   

[H713]

Just a guess, but ~800 V at 320 A is probably a magnet power supply.

[Wolfgang]

This could be a proper starting point for the worlds larges coin shrinker.

What about this:



only on a really big scale ...