Re: [TCML] "Wall Wart" Transformers

[Phillip Slawinski <pslawinski@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry to burst your bubble, but no this will NOT work.  These transformers
can't put up with that kind of voltage.  These transformers are also far too
small to provide a usable amount of power.

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 19:53, Leonidas Tolias <ltolias@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I had a few of those big black "Wall Wart" transformers lying around.  i
> pulled some apart and noticed that they have some nice looking transformers
> inside them.  The transformers have EE cores, with the cores made of
> interlocking metal Es.  the primary and secondary are wound side by side,
> not primary on top of secondary, or vice versa.  Some have center taps on
> the original secondaries (which we would use as primaries).  By running them
> in the reverse of their normal configuration, and possibly removing several
> winding from the primaries (seems like an easy way to make the turn ratio
> larger), would it be possible to use them in tesla coils? this would make
> transformers basically free, and i would hate to keep buying NSTs and OBITs
> if there were such an easy cheap
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