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OK, my transformer is toast. But i don't understand exactly what happened. Again, this was purchased as-is untested from someone who didn't know anything about it. I'm only getting 3.4vac on the heater winding and about 135v on the b+ winding. Investigating the primary side, only one of the unused lugs has a connection, and it seems to be about 8 ohms (dc) past the end of how it is currently wired. So my surmise is that it is configured for 100v and it is possible to move a wire to the other lug and power it from 117v. The heater winding has a center tap that is connected to 0vdc, which seems totally reasonable to me. The wire to ground from that center tap was pretty gnarly with some of the insulation at the end melted through and some loose filaments, as though someone who doesn't believe in flux was monkeying with it. The weird part is an additional black wire going from the heater CT to a lug next to the b+ wires. Hard to see in my crappy photos, but that lug did have a connection to something in the windings. If i disconnect it from the CT, it is an open circuit to all other lugs as well as the core and shield. And there are some black marks on the paper label underneath it that may be burn marks? So my guess is that perhaps the b+ winding on this unit had a center tap as well, and someone was trying to convert it from 100vac to 117vac operation and mistakenly tied half of the b+ winding to 0vdc, causing it to burn out. Though that doesn't explain the low heater voltage. I've ordered that aliexpress r-core because i refuse to recognize the sunk costs fallacy. I'll also order some 10mm or 12mm diameter b+ caps that can be laid against the power board to make room for the r-core.

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Blueberry Scone, Nice Cup Of Tea With a heaping side of View At the MWPCA Sunday Cafe https://mounttam.org/events

Last step in fondant potatoes is to put them in the oven, so currently baking these.

Simple Sunday bake. Not as much oven spring as I would have wished for but it should eat.

Several years back, I met a Head-Fi member from San Antonio, known as plaid platypus. I visited his home and was very impressed with his Genelec system. Today Genelec's pinnacle loud speaker is the 8381A. It's a 5 way adaptive point source monitor. At $32,000 per speaker, it's not cheap. But as a fan of the Genelec sound, I'd love to hear these speakers.

Uummm winner!

Ah that is why when I pushed play yesterday on my PC that the music started playing on my phone... I was very confused. So not a bug but a feature! thx

Qobuz Connect is out now.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Cristo_sandwich ?

Yep and more. Love the subverting.

now lunch.

Cleaning out to HDD a bit....

Banana bread for the birthday boy - somehow Andrew is 14.

Good job! Almost mountable to one of these heatsinks! https://modushop.biz/site/index.php?route=product/product&path=284&product_id=733

Don't you need a Cock Pot for that??

Non Eurovision Culture

Belated Happy Birthday, Chris.

Hot cock?

Interesting product. Also reminds me that I should wear my Bose Rondos more.

Petaluma Brownie, Berries and (all the) Ice Cream Selection.

In Petaluma for the Salute to American Graffiti.

Up for audiophile versions of those too.

^^ this - way different than the album cover would leave me to believe. Also different based on the merkin album cover. Anyway... - earlier - ABBA by ABBA (1975) https://album.link/fptvwf6qp87bb Example: 50yo release. Wanting to celebrate a past Eurovision winners. And test out the new satellite service for music streaming.

Since they seem to just be speakers in glasses - the person sitting right next to you will benefit as well. win-win