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Mar 23, 2019Explorer III
Lynnmor wrote:LScamper wrote:
An autotransformer and an autoformer are not the same thing.
Those two words mean exactly the same thing. A transformer does not have the ability to automatically correct voltage.
An autotransformer is an electrical device with a concise industry-wide definition. It does not do anything automatically.
Autoformer is a product name. It can be anything its maker wants it to be. One such product from Hughes does in fact do some things automatically.
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