Originally Posted by
planters
I suspect that some experimenters will try to series the secondaries and not the primaries and attempt to exceed their 20:1 step up.
This is why my stack is in oil. Parallel primaries and series secondaries. That's also why I have my 6 secondaries "center tapped", 3 on each side of ground. Still no mishaps in over 10 years. Then again, I'm probably only running them at about 400~500mA. I'm not pushing them too hard.
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