Hello Friends,
Help me put this beautiful transformer to Good use. It was pulled out from an Computer UPS. Simple model, Rated at 500VA, Square wave.It Used a 12v 8AH battery for storage. I have attatched pics for your reference.
I would be interested to know the function of this transformer in its original Application. I guess its for charging the battery. But will it also "up convert" the power from battery? Are so many taps for voltage stabilization? Does it provide multiple outputs for various solid state components/LEDs?
What would be the possible Input/Output Voltages and Amps?
Assumed Secondary-
Thick winding. Continuty meter shows perfect contunity among 3 terminals. I think there are 2 coils but the red wires are soldered together (seen in pic) so acting as single coil with Center tap. Is this correct?
There are some mysterious orange wires showing contunity among themselves but nowhere else (What are these for?) . Is this THE secondary?
Assumed Primary-
Oh boy! So many wires!
The Blue and Green ones among far right is a mysterious/Seperate coil. Just showing continuty among self, nowhere else. The handful of wires other than these show perfect continuty among each other, any way , any wire.
So there you go,
I'm more interested in step down use to run LEDs etc (I have most of my house converted to LEDs)
Thanks.
Help me put this beautiful transformer to Good use. It was pulled out from an Computer UPS. Simple model, Rated at 500VA, Square wave.It Used a 12v 8AH battery for storage. I have attatched pics for your reference.
I would be interested to know the function of this transformer in its original Application. I guess its for charging the battery. But will it also "up convert" the power from battery? Are so many taps for voltage stabilization? Does it provide multiple outputs for various solid state components/LEDs?
What would be the possible Input/Output Voltages and Amps?
Assumed Secondary-
Thick winding. Continuty meter shows perfect contunity among 3 terminals. I think there are 2 coils but the red wires are soldered together (seen in pic) so acting as single coil with Center tap. Is this correct?
There are some mysterious orange wires showing contunity among themselves but nowhere else (What are these for?) . Is this THE secondary?
Assumed Primary-
Oh boy! So many wires!
The Blue and Green ones among far right is a mysterious/Seperate coil. Just showing continuty among self, nowhere else. The handful of wires other than these show perfect continuty among each other, any way , any wire.
So there you go,
I'm more interested in step down use to run LEDs etc (I have most of my house converted to LEDs)
Thanks.