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I have so many questions. I wish you were the top neighbor in my apartment Thank you

what is the influence of the varnishing and baking of the transformer? Just to protect the wires? I know that guitar pickups are not good if they stay in wax for a long time.

It used to be that there were many different transformer metal kinds. Today, most of them are what is called "Grain Oriented Steel" (GOS) and most laminations are about the same thickness. The thicker the lamination, the more heating happens in the transformer steel because of eddy currents. The th...

Phil is very, very, very correct. I won't wind output transformers, and I (1) know how to run (and even build) a winding machine (2) know what materials are needed (3) know where to get them, (4) know and have done the processes involved. I once designed transformers and even prototyped a few of th...

tubeswell wrote: ↑Mon Jul 23, 2018 3:58 am I recently got a Schumacher OT rewound for a 67 Super Reverb - 4 primary and 3 secondary interleavings (my winding guy told me - after having meticulously unwound it so he could wind it again meticulously). 4k2:2R 50W

Thanks for the reply this is a great tip for me.

Hello everyone,
I want the fender super reverb output transformer winding,
but I could not find anywhere in the winding information. I wonder how the super reverb ot is winding. pri - sec or interleaving?
I need help, for winding detail.