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Microwave Trannies, how do I rewind them
Hi I have looking at the many posts related to using microwave
transformers and other transformers and there was someone or more than
one person who said that you could rewind them. I have a number of these
including a 2000va one from a commercial oven and was wondering how one
goes about rewinding them. Actually for that matter, how do you take the
windings off a neon as detailed in the archives? My problem is that
these tranformers all have laminated windings consisting of either
interleaved E shapes or an I and an E shape. Either way they are bondend
together tightly making it impossible to remove or rewind any windings.
Many times these laminations ar seam/spot welded along a number of sides
to keep everything together.
So, do I hacksaw one side of the figure of 8 off? and then rewind the
core minding out for the sharp edges and hoping that the remaining
laminations stay together? and then once rewound weld the sawn off piece
back on?
Maybe in the southern Hemisphere our transformers are made differently
than those in the USA and europe.
Hoping for a helpful reply :)
Matthew Mills
EMAIL: matthew.mills-at-santos-dot-com.au
Phone (08) 8364 0249