[nastydogg]

Have any of you ever tried to use a step up transformer in a boat?Seems to make a lot of sense to me.

 

[Old Bald Guy]

Have any of you ever tried to use a step up transformer in a boat?Seems to make a lot of sense to me.

What would you use it for?

 

[crfishhunter]

Whats a step up transformer.

 

[Waterproof]

It is also called a buck boost transformer. It takes a lower AC voltage and boosts it to a higher AC voltage. The downfall of that is that just like anything else electrical, you have to give up something. In the case of buck boost transformers you lose amperage.

 

[trajordy]

From what I've been studing in school, a stepup isn't going to do anything productive. They don't increase amps, only voltage.

 

[Old Bald Guy]

From what I've been studing in school, a stepup isn't going to do anything productive. They don't increase amps, only voltage.

Plus you have the efficiency to look at. About a 10% loss for the transformer. Magnetic ballasts are a form of step-up/step-down transformer. Put a volt meter and an amp on the wires to the bulb of a hps light and you can watch the voltage go up and amps go down as the bulb warms up.

 

[J_charton]

and besides the practicality, theyre heavy as he!!.