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what is current on load side of transformer?

#129315 01/16/05 11:27 AM

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ok...you have a 120V 60W lightbulb...it draws .5 Amps...right? now if you have low voltage lighting.....say you have a 10:1 stepdown transformer(120:12) driving a 20W lightbulb, would it be drawing 1.7 Amps?

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what is current on load side of transformer?	Clydesdale	01/16/05 03:27 PM
Re: what is current on load side of transformer?	pauluk	01/16/05 09:29 PM
Re: what is current on load side of transformer?	Clydesdale	01/17/05 12:18 AM
Re: what is current on load side of transformer?	IanR	01/17/05 06:32 PM
Re: what is current on load side of transformer?	Clydesdale	01/17/05 10:05 PM
Re: what is current on load side of transformer?	pauluk	01/17/05 11:21 PM
Re: what is current on load side of transformer?	Clydesdale	01/18/05 01:04 AM

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