18 Apr
2020
18 Apr
'20
7:36 a.m.
One approach to testing flyback transformers seems to be to use a circuit
that causes them to ring and observing whether the ringing is damped by
shorted turns. I've never got around to trying this myself.
I have a VT100 that failed with some smoke coming out of the center of the
transformer coil. I tried the ringing test. Here are my results:
http://www.datormuseum.se/peripherals/terminals/vt100
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