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.
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.
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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.
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.
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