Re: [TCML] No-load NST's

["Harold Weiss" <hweiss@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You can still buy NST's without GFCI from FranceFormer.  You will have to 
order directly and tell them that it is for non-gas tube service.

David Weiss

> > (Damn those mandatory GFCIs!!!)
>
> In a message dated 6/27/2008 7:25:36 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
> _pslawinski@xxxxxxxxxx (mailto:pslawinski@xxxxxxxxx)   writes:
>
> > > On the contrary, I love those  GFCIs :)  They  are a common failure 
> > > point
> on
> > > a NST, and I have a local shop that's  giving me their broken NSTs.  If 
> > > the
> > > GFCI fails it's quite a  simple matter to drill out the rivets on the 
> > > top
> and
> > > hardwire the  transformer.
>
> ...Except most of them are now potted right along with the core and coil 
> to
> prevent you from doing just that. I suppose it was too easy to defeat the
> unpotted ones (like Transco, for example) and I wouldn't doubt that they 
> were
> forced to make the GFCIs integral to the transformers.
>
> Tony Greer

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