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Topic: Custom Made Transformers
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Steve Klare
Film Guy
Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted April 14, 2013 02:54 PM
I think you probably could find somebody willing to do a custom transformer for you, but as they say "Given enough money you could fix the Titanic."
Making a brand new transformer involves having an engineer do the design work, and then having somebody sit at a winding machine and put the correct number of turns on the windings and then assemble it and test it. (Time and money, LOTSA money...)
-however!
There are thousands of different standard transformers available in catalogs.
With the same information that would be needed to develop one from scratch (Input voltage, output voltage(s), output current(s), size, mounting configuration...), there's a decent chance you could find a replacement much cheaper.
The odds are decent the one that was in there was a standard product in the first place. The jukebox manufacturer wouldn't want to reinvent the wheel (and take the technical risk) by making their own transformer when they can buy a month's worth of ones they know will work for wholesale prices and need to worry about nothing more than where to stock them until they are needed for production.
That way they could dedicate themselves to being a good jukebox manufacturer and leave being a good transformer manufacturer to somebody else.
What do you know about the part you are missing?
-------------------- All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...
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