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Zenith Power Transformer Connections
I have an old Zenith Power transformer I pulled from a set long ago.
I tested all the windings and there fine. I'm not sure which pair of wires are the 120VAC primary windings. The transformer has 14 wires coming out. The Zenith number is 95-3172. From what I could find from a google search is it was used in a 23GC45 and 25GC45 television. The Sam's folder is supposed to be 1558-2, a mid seventies set. Of the 14 wires, 4 pairs are isolated. The other 6, are taps of a single winding. One of the pairs have plastic insulation, the other 3 pairs are cloth covered. Would any happen to know which pair of leads are for the Primary or happen to have a schematic of the power supply ? Thanks, Ed |
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I don't know if I have any literature or not, but a safe-ish way of finding out what is what that I have used in the past is to take a 6.3V transformer (or tap into the heater windings of another set) and try connecting them to the ends of different windings of the mystery transformer. I then look at the voltages the other windings produce. Eventually you will find an input winding that makes another output winding produce around 120VAC and all other windings produce sane readings. By using 6.3V as the input you reduce the chance of damaging the lower voltage windings by applying too much voltage/current to them.
Just be careful not to let winding shorts happen from the loose leads touching, and be careful not to touch more than one lead at a time.
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Hi Tom,
I already tested the transformer. I use a 0-130 vac power supply to slowly bring up the voltage. Trouble with this tansformer is, it has two pairs of almost identical windings. When I applied 120vac to either of the pairs I get the same output readings on the other windings. Some of these Zenith transformers had a 120vac winding just for the degaussing coil. The set set may have been 100% solid state by mid 70's. Ed |
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I dont remember the name but its a special transformer
that uses an oil fill cap across one of the windings for regulation. All Zenith colors used it from E-line through K line. IIRC without the cap the transformer will pulsate. I can dig tomorrow for the manual & give you the color codes. 73 Zeno |
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Several names for it. Constant voltage transformer. Ferro-resonant transformer. Voltage regulating transformer. ALL mean the same thing. A transformer which uses forced core saturation to hold the output voltage steady..regardless of load or line changes(within reason of course). That oil cap is across the main secondary winding and tunes the winding in some way--without it--it will NOT regulate right and ALL voltages out of it will be quite low.
I would say the primary winding will be around 2-4 ohms--likely no lower or higher. The main secondary will be somewhat higher--and any LV secondaries will be a LOT lower likely. |
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I thought someone would know about this transformer. The oil filled cap you mentioned, are they still around ? Ed Last edited by EdKozk2; 01-30-2015 at 06:02 PM. |
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Brian USN RET (Avionics / Cal) CET- Consumer Repair and Avionics ('88) "Capacitor Cosmetologist since '79" When fuses go to work, they quit! |
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Brian, I probably have some of those oil caps lying around.
I went back to check another Sam's Folder I do have,1377-3 for a Zenith 17EC45/19EC45 chassis. It shows the an oil filled cap connected in the multi - tap winding of the secondary. The cap shown was a 3.5 uf @ 440 vac. Unfortunately the Zenith 17/19EC45 power transformer 95-3123 is not the same for the Zenith 23/25GC45 chassis. I guess the secondary output voltage would have a bearing on the oil cap's AC value. NoPegs the old Zenith power transformers have that heavy paint/tar? coating on the bells. I'll wait to see what Zeno comes up with. |
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OK this is from the G line manual.
It calls for a 95-3172-01 so may be different. primary grey & grey brown 3.3 ohm sec #1 black & black green 8.8 ohm for DGS sec #2 blue & yellow filament 6.3 V 840ma sec #3 white & black yellow 3.5mfd cap only red yellow tap to ground red black 135V green 35V green 35V brown 6V red 135V 73 Zeno |
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Thanks for the trouble Zeno, I'll see how
the info matches. Ed |
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Brian USN RET (Avionics / Cal) CET- Consumer Repair and Avionics ('88) "Capacitor Cosmetologist since '79" When fuses go to work, they quit! |
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Thanks you to everyone who helped me identify the leads of the Zenith
95-3172 transformer. Those resistance readings, made all the difference. I tested the transformer without an oil cap and the HV 135v lead only read 100-103vac. When connected the oil cap the transformer voltages came right up specs. Ed |
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So what are you planning to use that transformer in? I can think of a number of interesting uses for one of those.
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I was going to use it for a multi -purpose power supply, which I may still do. I was hoping it had a very high current low voltage winding. For instance; 8 to 30 volts @ 5 to 10 amps. For now I'm going to use an old Zenith 95-2141 power transformer. Its from a mid sixties B&W set I stripped in the 70's. It has two output windings; 115vac@ .3 amp and 6.3vac @ 8.9 amps. I needed lots of filament current for 5 volt tubes like the old cx201's used in 1920's battery sets. I,m using a 12 amp bridge rectifier for a 1.4v drop from 6.3v to 4.9volts. The 115 volt secondaries current may be overkill, but I have plenty of current for tubes like the 6080 which I use now and then. Ed |
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