Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!mit-amt!mit-caf!ankleand From: ankleand@mit-caf.MIT.EDU (Andrew Karanicolas) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Transformer Help needed... Message-ID: <3297@mit-caf.MIT.EDU> Date: 12 Oct 89 00:38:49 GMT References: <616@winnie.fit.edu> Reply-To: ankleand@mit-caf.UUCP (Andrew Karanicolas) Organization: Microsystems Technology Laboratories, MIT Lines: 49 In article <616@winnie.fit.edu> dcs60222@zach.UUCP ( ENRIQUEZ) writes: >Hello, >chain. I asked for help... > > And I recieved it! Many thanks to all who responded to my inqury...... >others said to buy a larger transformer) I was one of those people, and I still think that a larger transformer would be easier. > > 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). I thought it was made clear that the original transformer did NOT have enough volt-ampere capacity. > 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. Good grief! They could have easly purchased a larger tranformer before hiring a P.E. > > 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??? I don't know, ask heaven :-) You know, there are problems in this world that are very easy to solve, your parents lighting problem is one of them. Good luck. > Thanks in advance .... > > Mark Enriquez dcs60222@zach.uucp -- =================================================================== Andrew Karanicolas MIT Microsystems Laboratory ankleand@caf.mit.edu MIT EECS Cambridge, MA 02139 ===================================================================