Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] transformer question

Richard: If there are no other electrical terminals - just the two wires -
then this is probably an inductor, or "choke" in power-supply parlance.

If it is a transformer, it would have also PRIMARY winding terminals or
wires. Either solder-tags, screw-terminals, lead-wires.

A "transformer" CAN have as few as three wires or terminals, in which case it
would be called an "AUTOtransformer", where the "primary" shares the
"secondary", making for an economy of copper. However, there are several
potentially-dangerous disadvantages to this kind of design. With just two
wires, and if you are certain nothing had been "pulled out" (butchered)
before you got it in your pinkies, it is NOT an autotransformer, and
CERTAINLY not a "transformer"!!! Jan Rowland