jelliott
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I've got a transformer (part of a battery charger) that has five different inputs to provide five different charging rates.
My question is what would happen if 110 V mains power were to be simultaneously connected to two inputs at once?
(I've been assuming that the higher-rate inputs work by skipping windings on the primary coil to provide a lower transformation ratio, but I don't know a whole lot about AC circuits, and I don't want to risk the aforementioned failure mode without some confidence that it will be benign--or at least trip the circuit breaker that's on the higher-rate input before damaging anything.)
Thanks.
My question is what would happen if 110 V mains power were to be simultaneously connected to two inputs at once?
(I've been assuming that the higher-rate inputs work by skipping windings on the primary coil to provide a lower transformation ratio, but I don't know a whole lot about AC circuits, and I don't want to risk the aforementioned failure mode without some confidence that it will be benign--or at least trip the circuit breaker that's on the higher-rate input before damaging anything.)
Thanks.