zachtheterrible
Active Member
well, i decided that id make a jacob's ladder. I don't have a step up transformer, so i yanked a step-down transformer out of some piece of electroncis and connected it backwards.
the math that i did to find how much the transformer was outputing was this: (the tranformer stepped down the voltage to 4 or 4.5 or something) 120/4= . . . 30x120=3600 volts. of course i have noo idea of the "right math", but I figured this would work . . . does it?
another thing im wondering is, is it allright to connect transformers backwards? Cuz when I did this, the transformer hummed really loud, made some smoke, and then tripped the circuit breaker on my little power strip :lol: .
the math that i did to find how much the transformer was outputing was this: (the tranformer stepped down the voltage to 4 or 4.5 or something) 120/4= . . . 30x120=3600 volts. of course i have noo idea of the "right math", but I figured this would work . . . does it?
another thing im wondering is, is it allright to connect transformers backwards? Cuz when I did this, the transformer hummed really loud, made some smoke, and then tripped the circuit breaker on my little power strip :lol: .