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From: dam@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (David Morning)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: step up transformer
Message-ID: <7558@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Date: 28 Jan 91 10:45:51 GMT
References: <Jan.23.03.46.07.1991.5100@zeppelin.rutgers.edu> <1228@heurikon.heurikon.com>
Reply-To: dam@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (David Morning)
Organization: Comp Sci, Glasgow Univ, Scotland
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In article <1228@heurikon.heurikon.com> johne@ex.heurikon.com (John Eckrich) writes:
]map@zeppelin.rutgers.edu (O. C.) writes:
]
]>My brother and I are building guitar amps.  Any help with inexpensive
]>sources for step up transformers(120->350)?

DANGER! DANGER! DANGER! DANGER! DON"T DO THIS!!! YOU'LL END UP WITH A FIRE!!
Plugging a winding designed to handle 40volts into 120volts is asking for trouble!
]
]Use a 40V (ie. 120 -> 40) transformer, and plug it in backwards.
]
]DigiKey has the following:
]
]Part #		Volts		Amps		$$$
]------		-----		-----		---
]T107-ND		40		.110		 8.25
]T117-ND		40		.250		10.68
]T127-ND		40		.600		14.80

DANGER! DANGER! DANGER! DANGER! DON"T DO THIS!!! YOU'LL END UP WITH A FIRE!!

Am I imagining things or is this newsgroup becoming more dangerous?
First it was "How to fry someone peeing in your window" and now this!

Dave