<div dir="ltr">Also make sure that the earth on the line voltage is NOT directly connected to any of the secondaries. Your schematic shows four secondary windings and none of the coil wires will be the same potential as earth, which will cause excess current flow when directly coupled.<div><br></div><div>MC</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 9:50 AM Jean-Pierre Desrochers via Synth-diy <<a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg622265705084368811"><div lang="FR-CA" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_622265705084368811WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">There are wire links that set the correct AMERICA 120v voltages on the same PCB. These links are placed correctly.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border-width:1pt medium medium;border-style:solid none none;border-color:rgb(225,225,225) currentcolor currentcolor;padding:3pt 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="FR" style="font-size:11pt">De :</span></b><span lang="FR" style="font-size:11pt"> Synth-diy <<a href="mailto:synth-diy-bounces@synth-diy.org" target="_blank">synth-diy-bounces@synth-diy.org</a>> <b>De la part de</b> grant <a href="http://musictechnologiesgroup.com" target="_blank">musictechnologiesgroup.com</a><br><b>Envoyé :</b> 19 février 2026 22:11<br><b>À :</b> <a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org" target="_blank">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a><br><b>Objet :</b> Re: [sdiy] Questioning on why both of this power transformer primary windings went almost short..<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">I repaired a Garnet amp that blew its transformer when the generator it was hooked up to had been set for way too high a voltage (I don't remember what the customer said the voltage was, but they admitted the festival was smokier than originally planned). I think that was all that was wrong too. Aside from fuses. <br><br>GB<br><br>On 2/19/2026 5:20 PM, Jean-Pierre Desrochers via Synth-diy wrote:<span><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">A customer brought me a guitar preamp that he said ‘blows its internal fuses..’</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">I checked the internals and found that both of the internal 315mA primary windings fuses were blown (F2 & F3).</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">The main 500mA fuse (F1) was ok.</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">So I connected my variac to <u>only one</u> of the primary windings (no fuses) to find that<br>reaching around 90VAC it started to drain around 1 AMP !</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">I checked the other primary winding alone and it behaved exactly the same,</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">1AMP at around 90VAC.</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">These measures were done with none of the secondaries connected (free wires).</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">So my questioning is what the heck almost shorted each of these primary windings<br>exactly the same way..?</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">I connected external AC voltages to each of the secondaries bridge (one at the time)<br>and there were no shorts on each of them. The resulting DC voltages were as expected.</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">To create those shorts at each primaries it would have needed<br>that the 315mA fuses would have been replaced by much higher values<br>with some kind of shorts somewhere in the secondaries side.. ?</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">OR this is a manufacturing default that waited to awake ?</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Anyway I ordered a new transformer replacement, but I don’t want<br>to fry it again because of something else that blew the first one..</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">What do you think ?</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><img width="802" height="301" style="width: 8.3541in; height: 3.1354in;" id="m_622265705084368811_x0000_i1025"></span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><br><br><u></u><u></u></span></p><pre>________________________________________________________<u></u><u></u></pre><pre>This is the Synth-diy mailing list<u></u><u></u></pre><pre>Submit email to: <a href="mailto:Synth-diy@synth-diy.org" target="_blank">Synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a><u></u><u></u></pre><pre>View archive at: <a href="https://synth-diy.org/pipermail/synth-diy/" target="_blank">https://synth-diy.org/pipermail/synth-diy/</a><u></u><u></u></pre><pre>Check your settings at: <a href="https://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy" target="_blank">https://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy</a><u></u><u></u></pre><pre>Selling or trading? 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