Paid on pickup
Sell a Grounding Transformer in Ohio
Padmount and dry-type units of this type bought across Ohio, in any condition, with the oil sampled before we quote.
What we buy
What we buy here
The typical grounding transformer in service has been doing one job for decades, and the job has usually changed around it. We have bought grounding transformers out of plants, substations, hospitals and yards, and the process does not change with the setting.
| Size band | 5 to 2,000 kVA |
|---|---|
| Voltage | 2,400 to 34,500 volts |
| Usually found | industrial buses, generator systems and utility distribution |
| What we inspect | neutral bushing condition, impedance and short-time rating |
| How it travels | a skid and a forklift for the smaller units |
Who we buy from
Six kinds of seller, one desk
- Recyclers
- Electrical contractors
- Equipment dealers
- End users
- Demo contractors
- Distributors
Fast offers
A nameplate photo is usually enough to price a unit the same day.
Dedicated logistics
We arrange the crane, the permits and the flatbed, not you.
No broker fees
You are dealing with the buyer, so nothing is shaved off the offer.
How it works
Six steps from your yard to the money
- 01
Take pictures
The nameplate, the cabinet interior and the tank in daylight. Three photographs are usually enough to place a unit in the right class and the right price band.
- 02
Send them to us
The form on this page, a text or an email all reach the same desk. Include the city, the access and any deadline the site is working to.
- 03
Review the offer
A buyer reads the photographs, asks one or two questions and sends a written offer with the assumptions stated, so nothing changes on the day.
- 04
We schedule freight
Crane, flatbed and permits are booked around your access. You get a date and a window, and we carry the cost of getting it right.
- 05
Testing on arrival
Winding resistance, megger and turns ratio, plus oil analysis where the unit is liquid filled. The results decide the final number, and you see them.
- 06
Get paid
Payment is released on the agreed terms once the unit is received and tested, by check or ACH. No retention, no sixty-day terms.
What we handle for you
The parts sellers dread, done for you
Rigging
Crane and forklift arranged around your access, not the other way round.
Oil containment
Bunds, absorbent and disposal handled before the unit moves.
Bill of sale
A clean title document for your records, signed on collection.
PCB paperwork
Pre-1979 units get the testing and the manifest they need.
Transformer type
What a grounding transformer is
The grounding transformer family is broad enough that two units with the same kVA can be entirely different machines. A furnace transformer is built for duty that would destroy a distribution unit within a year.
A reactor looks like a transformer and behaves like an inductor, which confuses sellers who read the kVA. A generator step-up unit is designed around one generator, so its impedance is matched rather than generic.
Where these units turn up in Ohio
A unit that has been disconnected for a year is not the same proposition as one that came out last week. A seller who sends four photographs at the start usually gets a decision the same day.
An insurance salvage is bought on the adjuster's valuation rather than the seller's hope, which keeps the process honest. Every county in Ohio has a different mix of utility ownership, and that mix decides who signs what.
What we check before we quote
Condition is read from the outside in: paint, rust pattern, radiator fins, bushing condition, then the oil. A seller who keeps the test sheet makes the next sale faster, because the next buyer asks the same questions.
A transformer that has run at a steady percentage of nameplate for years usually has clean oil, whatever its age. A unit that smells of solvent has probably been cleaned rather than maintained.
Condition, oil and contamination
A unit stored on gravel wicks moisture from below, and a unit on timber skids takes it from the air. A buyer who handles contamination properly takes a liability off the seller's books, and that service has value.
What a grounding transformer is worth to us
Getting it off the pad
Common questions
Other transformer types we buy
Get started
Get an offer in minutes
Five fields and a phone number is all we need to start. We reply the same business day, and a firm number follows the nameplate photo.
(614) 715-3047or send the form and we will call you.
Questions
What sellers ask before they call
Equipment types
Do you buy a grounding transformer that has already failed?
We do not photograph a site for publication and we do not name a seller in anything we write. A grounding transformer that failed a high-potential test is a teardown candidate, but the tank and the core often outlive the winding. A seller should be able to tell, from one phone call, whether the buyer has done this before.
Service area
What does a grounding transformer weigh, and does that change the pickup?
Site names, addresses and photographs stay in the file, and the file does not leave the desk. Rigging weight, shipping weight and operating weight are three different numbers and only one of them belongs on a permit. A seller who mentions the deadline in the first sentence gets a schedule rather than a queue.
Payment
Can you collect a grounding transformer outside Ohio?
If a unit sits just over a state line, the honest answer is that somebody closer should buy it. We know the Ohio permit routes, the scales and the bridge limits because that is the only ground we work. A short list of photographs covers the cabinet, the tag, the bushings and the access, and nothing else is needed at the start.