Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!winnie!zach!dcs60222 From: dcs60222@zach.fit.edu ( ENRIQUEZ) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Transformer Help needed... Summary: Using identical transformers to boost output current. Message-ID: <616@winnie.fit.edu> Date: 9 Oct 89 19:11:23 GMT Sender: usenet@winnie.fit.edu Reply-To: dcs60222@zach.UUCP ( ENRIQUEZ) Organization: Florida Institute of Technology, ACS, Melbourne, FL Lines: 31 Hello, Several months ago I posted a problem I had with a transformer driving 25 12v, 20w lights. The problem was that the transformer could not drive the lights past the 12th to 14th light without dimming the whole chain. I asked for help... And I recieved it! Many thanks to all who responded to my inqury. The basic consensus was that IF I could match the transformers identically and IF the wire was low enough gauge I MIGHT be able to do it. (Some others said to buy a larger transformer) Well, I conveyed the results to my "clients" (i.e. parents) and they were overjoyed, estatic, etc. So, they gave the printout to the "lighting designer" and she promptly threw it away, saying all that was needed to be done was to move the transformer closer to the lights ( there was ~40 feet of 12 gauge wire). They did it, and it improved, but still not good enough... So, now an P.E. has been hired by them (Dad's a M.D.) and his soulution is to buy an identical transformer, put it in the old place (~40 feet away from the lights) and put the old transformer next to the lights. QUESTION: assuming a lenght of 35 feet of 12-gauge wire between two 750 watt transformers, will the house burn down or the transformers blow up first . Or, by heaven's grace WILL THIS WORK??? Thanks in advance .... Mark Enriquez dcs60222@zach.uucp