Re: Transformer question

From: Jamie (jamie_5_not_valid_after_5_Please_at_charter.net)
Date: 09/26/04 

Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 11:52:40 -0700

its most likely your digital meter.
my fluke i use at work will not properly
read a field winding above a 100 ohms due
to inductive reactions. it just sits there
blinking now and then giving me an OL reading.
try putting it on DIODE mode.

John Fields wrote:

> On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 09:03:32 -0400, "Art" <plotsligt@comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
>
>> >Having an open resistance reading on the primary in indicative there
>>has been failure within the transformer, be it an open thermal protect
>>device or actually a break within the actual primary wires.
>
>
> ---
> You obviously missed the point, which was that a finite resistance
> could be measured from the center tap to either end of the primary but
> that the end-to-end resistance was infinite.
>