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Tony Miklos[_2_] Tony Miklos[_2_] is offline
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Default Blew another damn transformer on my Trane XB80

On 4/16/2011 8:18 AM, wrote:
I would think that if it were a surge that was initiating the
failures, it would have
to be a large one to breakdown the insulation on the transformer
primary.


In a little transformer like this, the primary is very small gauge wire,
a surge could easily do it.