Happy dumpster dive!

[HIPCHECK]

well, not really so much a dumpster dive, this cost me around $35.00 from my local recycle center.......

350+ pounds : .10cent a pound in the non-clean metal piles, usually dishwashers and microwaves only.

60 pounds highly polished alum heatsinks
30 pounds of faded black heatsinks
42 finned to247 pcb heatsinks
5 HUGE gapped Inductors
2 filter concepts 3phase line filters
several huge igbt!
a pile of ixys dsei30-60a diodes/ ixys mosfets/irfp260n
lots of copper bars- plates etc for caps
pcbs with alot of huge wima mkp caps etc...


$1 each- 2 APC battery backup UPS (APC1400/1100?) with good batts. plugged in and they self tested and worked, lol!

i couldnt haul off the real goodies some huge industrial welding units i guess? with some massive multi tap transformers (several KVA) but the transformer cores should be coming back sans the massive gauge copper wire the guy is removing so i can get them for a few bucks.

[HIPCHECK]

heres a shot of the smaller boys , next to a dayton 8"dvc sub.

[HIPCHECK]

and one of 2 heatsinks

base is 0.5 inch thick
fins are 1.75 inch
heatsink is 11.25 x 12.25
weights around 18-19lbs

[Geek]

Right on!

Those are some great finds.

[TomWaits]

Originally posted by HIPCHECK
well, not really so much a dumpster dive, this cost me around $35.00 from my local recycle center.......

Whatcha got there for capacitors? Voltage - Farads?

Great Score! I love good surplus.

Shawn.

[HIPCHECK]

its all in my storage, but should be cornell dub 6000uf maybe 650volts ..... ill never need them

prolly good for tubes not my flavor. if anybody cares for them pay shipping ill box them up.

[aerius]

Surplus stores and recycle centres are the best things since sliced bread, if it weren't for surplus stores I would never have gotten into DIY. You never know what you'll find in there, some days it ain't much, but sometimes you score big. Congrats, looks like you made a good haul!

ps. It's also great for instant gratification, if I'm missing a resistor or diode I don't have to wait for a mail-order to come in and get killed on shipping, drive down to the surplus shop and I have the part in my hand within 10 minutes.