Skiroy
Well-known member
Okay Im a noobie. My understanding was that the primary side of the transfomer was what you feed to the transformer and the secondary is what the transformer outputs.
Primary equals input of 240V and secondary equals output on 120V.
Well my boss today, which I dont have the most confidence in looked at a transfomer that its label siad the primary was 480V and the Secondary was 208V.
He told me that the transformer converted 208V to 480V,but I thought it was vice versa.
1.So is he wrong or can you take a transformer and supply voltage to the secondary and step up voltage and use the primary as the output?
2. And a unrelated question, They have a motor rated for 220V running on 240V voltage. I know the voltage range is +- 10% for whats on the motors namplate. So that means the max upper range for the motors is 242V. So is this cutting it too close?
Primary equals input of 240V and secondary equals output on 120V.
Well my boss today, which I dont have the most confidence in looked at a transfomer that its label siad the primary was 480V and the Secondary was 208V.
He told me that the transformer converted 208V to 480V,but I thought it was vice versa.
1.So is he wrong or can you take a transformer and supply voltage to the secondary and step up voltage and use the primary as the output?
2. And a unrelated question, They have a motor rated for 220V running on 240V voltage. I know the voltage range is +- 10% for whats on the motors namplate. So that means the max upper range for the motors is 242V. So is this cutting it too close?