"George Jetson" writes:

I have a few old computer UPS around 1000va all with shot batteries, and E
core transformers. I know lots of reasons why they may or may not work as
stepdown transformers. Has any one tried it?

If the transformer was running at line frequency, then it should work.

Why not try it on a Variac?

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