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Re: Transformers
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To: tesla-at-grendel.objinc-dot-com
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Subject: Re: Transformers
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From: "SROYS" <SROYS-at-radiology.ab.umd.edu>
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 16:00:42 EDT
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> One note on microwave transformers: I jsut pulled one from a
realatively
> new oven with a bad magneteron. This particluar transfromer IS
CURRENT
> LIMITED by shunting plates just like in neon sign transformers. THe
degree
> of shunting is less however.
I'll have to check mine for shunts- I didn't even think to look when I was
playing with them. I just figured that since they were trying to suck 70+
Amps out of a 20A breaker that they were not current limited.
Regardless, it's probably safe to assume that you will need seperate
current limiting if you use microwave oven transformers.
Steven Roys (sroys-at-radiology.ab.umd.edu)