Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: sizing transformer for servo system ?

Terry Owens wrote:

>>Welcome to the real world - Buy from anywhere like we do.
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>Sure, but shipping large power transformers across the Atlantic
>is pretty expensive! Also, some US surplus outfits won't take international
>orders. A new 1 KVA power transformer is going to be quite expensive,
>too.
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>Jon
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>This is the 21st century, no-one uses money orders anymore, do they.
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I'm sure Bill is going to scream at us any moment now, but I'm not
talking about postal money
orders. I am saying that a number of the smaller surplus vendors in the
US will not ship overseas,
or even to Canada!

> That should have gone the way of sheep and cattle bartering. Currency is move around by VISA and ACCESS and nearly everyone takes those and most take Paypal. Shipping from the States is not that expensive if the weight is kept low enough for US mail.
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A 1 KVA power transformer will weigh 50 Lbs, bare. Properly packed, it
will be 70+ Lbs.
I don't think US mail will accept a package of that weight for air mail,
and even the surface
rate for overseas will be very expensive. I ship CNC servo motion
systems all over the
world, so I have some idea of the postal rates. In fact, I just sent
the other part of this
gentleman's hardware to him in Finland. It was no more than 15 Lbs, and
the Fed Ex
rate was $98. We tried to ship it by US Post air mail, but they told us
they would not
insure it for full value. I still don't understand the details of that
little bit, but I
changed shippers for that reason.

Jon