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Moral of the story: test your transformers first

I disconnected all the secondarys (secondaries?) from the power transformer and hooked it up with a current meter in the hot line. The transformer is drawing 2.6 AMPS (!) with no connection. I suspect that this is not good. ;) I have wasted hours and parts on a boat anchor. From now on, every vintage piece gets the iron tested first before doing anything else.

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  • Moral of the story: test your transformers first - floydandrews 12:14:37 03/31/14 (0)
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