sbelyo Posted December 10, 2018 Report Share Posted December 10, 2018 OK, so I did something stupid and accidentally shorted the secondaries of an Avel Lindberg Y23 transformer for two seconds. The voltage seems fine after I corrected the error. Do you think it survived, and or what's the harm in using it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsavitsk Posted December 10, 2018 Report Share Posted December 10, 2018 Why didn't your fuse blow? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbelyo Posted December 10, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2018 it did, I thought I had a very small fuse in there. Put a bigger one in and it held Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueman2 Posted December 10, 2018 Report Share Posted December 10, 2018 if voltage is OK, then you probably dodged a bullet. The issue comes in melting the insulation on the secondary wiring loop. If you did burn off insulation, you would have nearby wires in the loop touching each other, which would create the effect of fewer loops of wire, which would in turn reduce voltage. In any case, I would go ahead and continue to use the transformer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbelyo Posted December 10, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2018 Yeah, voltage seems ok. I'll go ahead and put it under load to see if it drops below the voltage that it should be Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitigir Posted December 11, 2018 Report Share Posted December 11, 2018 (edited) There would have been magic smoke already if the secondary was shorted when the insulation melted ? Edited December 11, 2018 by Whitigir Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbelyo Posted December 11, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2018 good, no magic smoke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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