complaints when using a hughes autoformer
I am looking at a used hughes autoformer. I know some parks rules say they are not allowed. Some parks we have been in, I have seen voltage at @ 102 to 104 with my a/c on. I would be using a PI 3o...
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Lynnmor wrote:ScottG wrote:GordonThree wrote:
AC current is neat, you can trade voltage for current and vice versa, using simple magnetic coils.
Boosting 100 volts to 120 volts, with wattage remaining fixed (same load), means your transformer will drawing more amps over an already overloaded distribution system to make up the volts.
I can see a park with a sub-standard system being upset about blowing a main transformer or damaging lines if everyone were running their own transformer.
It will make the problem worse for others on the system that don't have their own transformer. Your transformer will only cause the voltage to drop even lower for others.
Given today's society, the me-first thinking that's popular, lowering someone else's voltage is not my problem, others can buy a transformer too of course.
Report this park to the County building inspector, and the state building inspector. Low voltage is a safety issue.
Right on the mark.
An autoformer is not ever going to cause problems for the USER. It only creates more of a low voltage issue for others.
This nonsense will go on forever and there is no use trying to debate it. It is incorrect. If my AC and other appliances are laboring with high amperage and low voltage, which is both damaging and efficient, would it make you feel better when all of us ruin our possessions?
You clearly do not understand how an autoformer works.
To make voltage higher, it pulls more current - period, end of sentence.
If and it's a big "if", the AC or something else then uses less current, it doesn't mean the autoformer isn't still drawing more NET current. The more loads you turn on, like AC, the more current the autoformer uses just to make it's conversion.
People get hung up on OHM's law. They think just because voltage goes up current goes down. This is not always true. A resistive load will cause the current to go UP when voltage is increased. There are many exceptions.
BTW, Autoformer the company did not invent these. Common autoformers have been around for 100+ years and this company's claims just aren't accurate.
