[Amps] Buzzing transformer

Steve Wright stevewrightnz at gmail.com
Mon Sep 26 18:03:21 EDT 2016


On 27/09/16 09:24, David G4FTC <g4ftc at hotmail.com> wrote:
> If the transformer is getting hot, and I mean so hot that it cannot be touched, then it could be a shorted turn on one of the windings - bad news as it means the transformer is effectively u/s.
>

If the transformer has a shorted winding, I expect it would go up in 
smoke in short order!

Any transformer can have a winding replaced - they were actually 
assembled that way.

S



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