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hywelg
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« on: April 24, 2008, 08:59:47 PM »

Just found out that on my OT the red is NOT the centre tap on my tranny. I had read the reports of the blue and brown being reversed and my amp tech told me that red for centre tap is standard in Fender and Marshall OT trannies. I had completed the build and gave it to my amp tech to test and he found a problem which he thought was the OT being faulty. Nik suggested measureing the resistances red-blue-brown-red and sure enough red was NOT centre.

Easy if you know to check and kit builders should be made aware of it I think.

I just hope that the secondaries are correctly colour coded as per layout drawing.
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« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2008, 05:30:06 PM »

Its a very handy test that i will never forget, and it seems so obvious! just goes to show that you shouldn't just copy the diagrams.
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« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2008, 06:51:49 PM »

Nik did admit that my transformer is wrongly colour coded and it does happed occasionally and that his transformer manufacturer will get a slap!
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« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2008, 09:53:58 AM »

mine seems fine, I assume that the 2 wires with the greatest resistance will leave the other wire to be the centre tap. In which case, it is the red wire on mine.
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« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2008, 05:31:13 PM »

If yours is centre tap red then

red-blue = red-brown =  (blue-brown)/2

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