[Boatanchors] Bucking Autotransformer - use as combination bucking and isolation?

[Ben Hall]

Hey Rob,

Something like that.  What I was trying to say is that any boatanchor receiver powered from standard mains (15 amp breaker) would be completely over-killed by this transformer.

For sure, you're correct, I know of no BA RX that pulls more than a few amps!  Hence this transformer being so totally overkill in an autotransformer bucking configuration.  Even an SP-200 I think has it's power supply fused at 3 amps IIRC?

thanks much and 73,
ben

On 2/19/2024 3:56 PM, Rob Atkinson wrote:
>> Quite overkill for a 15 amp mains powered boatanchor receiver!
> 
> I know of no receiver that draws 15 amps at 120 v.  Maybe you meant 1.5 amps?
> 
> Rob
> K5UJ