[TCML] "Wall Wart" Transformers

[Leonidas Tolias <ltolias@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 alternative. 
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