what size substation would you need to run 520 pinball machines?

[beaky]

I just thought i would add you would like to add this to your list of useless information.
If you had 520 pinball machines and you wanted to run them all at the same time you would need a substation big enough to power a small residential estate.
this is what the substation would look like.

[Retropin]

I nearly bought a substation once off Energex by accident... i wanted a  pole pig and they thought i wanted a small substation... i was gobsmacked that they would acyually sell me one with no hassles at all

[beaky]

buying the substation is easy, getting an 11kv supply to run it is the hard part.
when they put these into commision energex has to turn off the 11kv supply which usually runs several of these at once so there are a lot of houses with out power when this happens.

the cement pad that the substation is bolted to just sits on the culvert (the cube shaped cement thing in the photo) the culvert is hollow with a big hole in the top of it. this is supposed to catch the oil if the substation develops a leak.

when they had the floods in Townsville a year or two ago one of these substation had been sat on the cement cube but hadn't been wired up, the force of the water was so strong the substaton was washed away.

[Retropin]

I needed the pole pig to get minimum 10KV supply..... i now have 20KV @1A supply.  Also have a spare transformer this size with suitable variac... was gonna float it on Ebay for some TESLA nut to play around with... would make an awesome Tesla coil

[beaky]

there are some excellent videos of some tesla coils in action on youtube. amazing stuff, check this out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi4kXgDBFhw&feature=related

[Retropin]

Love Tesla coils... i have a lot of spare neon transformers that are 15KV @ 30mA, also a capacitor from a heart diffrib machine... keep meaning to make one

[beaky]

I used to make jacobs ladders with neon transformers. they give the room that mad scientist look