New Transformer

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on: October 07, 2014, 12:27:14 PM
I posted on here about 3 weeks ago about  my friend's kit that had open secondary windings in the transformer.  Thank you for sending him a new transformer.  Today we powered up just the transformer.  We get 6.2vac from the filament and 169vac from the HV secondaries.  I am thinking this is an acceptable for the 150V windings.   Am I correct?   I measured 12 ohm on the primary and 83 ohms on the HV secondaries.  I am assuming the measured resistance seems high on the secondaries because, being two windings twisted together, there is a greater length of wire in each of them than would be the case with a simpler transformer design.  Is this correct?  BTW, the transformer was labeled 240V but we got the correct voltages from 120VAC so I assume it was mislabeled.  If someone had connected it to 240VAC, it could have caused problems.

Thanks again,
Scott Harper