Microwave oven transformer article needs expansion
Bjørn, Wed Nov 28 2007, 01:27AMThis article needs diagrams, pictures and general information added:
The article should contain all the information people might sensibly ask about MOTs. Detailed transformer theory goes into the transformer article.
Re: Microwave oven transformer article needs expansion
Dr. Slack, Wed Mar 05 2008, 01:25PM
OK, I've lobbed a little bit of text into there, which is in desperate need of Wikification, and still needs a picture. However, I started writing "this is how you modify a MOT", and realised it was rapidly becoming "this is how you tell a noob how to kill himself", so just stuck a warning in while I had a think. How far should we go down describing the serising secondaries / knocking out shunts / throw on some extra primary turns routes?
I've also introduced a classification into the related Transformer article, what do people think of it, does it help thinking about transformers and their non-idealities? Some wikification of links out from that could also help.
Dr. Slack, Wed Mar 05 2008, 01:25PM
OK, I've lobbed a little bit of text into there, which is in desperate need of Wikification, and still needs a picture. However, I started writing "this is how you modify a MOT", and realised it was rapidly becoming "this is how you tell a noob how to kill himself", so just stuck a warning in while I had a think. How far should we go down describing the serising secondaries / knocking out shunts / throw on some extra primary turns routes?
I've also introduced a classification into the related Transformer article, what do people think of it, does it help thinking about transformers and their non-idealities? Some wikification of links out from that could also help.
Re: Microwave oven transformer article needs expansion
Bjørn, Wed Mar 05 2008, 04:36PM
At the moment I think you should ignore the safety aspect and think about what you would have wanted to read if you needed this sort of information while at the same time trying make sure that people with less knowledge will not get completely confused. We should probably come up with some labeling system for articles like this that exaplains the danger and illlegality for unqualified people.
When it comes to describing the details of modifications you probably should put in all the details then we can make separate "How to" articles with pictures or diagrams that we link to from the main article.
I think the article is looking good, it describes the specialities of a MOT without repeating the main transformer article. I will add some links later today.
Bjørn, Wed Mar 05 2008, 04:36PM
At the moment I think you should ignore the safety aspect and think about what you would have wanted to read if you needed this sort of information while at the same time trying make sure that people with less knowledge will not get completely confused. We should probably come up with some labeling system for articles like this that exaplains the danger and illlegality for unqualified people.
When it comes to describing the details of modifications you probably should put in all the details then we can make separate "How to" articles with pictures or diagrams that we link to from the main article.
I think the article is looking good, it describes the specialities of a MOT without repeating the main transformer article. I will add some links later today.
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