Hello, I bought some time ago a 2x17Vac/200VA transformer from Indel. I was dissatisfied by the voltage of the secondary, because it was too high for my current project. So, I disassembled the transformer and I took off a few turns from one of the 17Vac secondary. After that modification, the output voltage from the 2 series secondaries was about 30Vac (17Vac from one secondary and about 13Vac from the modified secondary).
A few days ago, I needed a 26Vac transformer so I disassembled again the transformer and I made an output for 26Vac.
Now, the secondary winding wires are not equally distributed on the toroidal core and if I connect a load on the secondary, one half of the transformer is heating up more than the other half. I will make a test to check the maximum temperature of the transformer after a few hours of working with load. This kind of problem was something that I expected, and my questions are:
1. What are the problems that can appear if the transformer was rewound as I specified above ?
2. Should I buy a new transformer ?
Thank you in advance.
A few days ago, I needed a 26Vac transformer so I disassembled again the transformer and I made an output for 26Vac.
Now, the secondary winding wires are not equally distributed on the toroidal core and if I connect a load on the secondary, one half of the transformer is heating up more than the other half. I will make a test to check the maximum temperature of the transformer after a few hours of working with load. This kind of problem was something that I expected, and my questions are:
1. What are the problems that can appear if the transformer was rewound as I specified above ?
2. Should I buy a new transformer ?
Thank you in advance.