Is this a short circuit or normal?

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Offline Gauss

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on: April 03, 2011, 02:35:43 PM
I started building my crack. I'm at page 19. While I read for shorts with my multimeter I found pins 4 and 5 from the transformer to read as a short and 0 ohms. Is this a normal reading because of the transformer nature or do I have a short circuit that must be fixed?

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Offline Jim R.

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Reply #1 on: April 03, 2011, 02:55:33 PM
Hi,

That is the filament heater supply, and yes, it should be very close to a short circuuit on the PT3 transformer.

You should be goo to go.

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Offline Grainger49

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Reply #2 on: April 03, 2011, 02:57:55 PM
Well, the last step on page 19 is to ground transformer terminal 4.  You should read close to zero ohms between transformer terminals 4 and 5 or zero from 4 to ground and near zero from 5 to ground.


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