Transformers Get Warm…Don’t Panic!
An ACUPWR customer contacted us in a state of panic because her voltage transformer was getting significantly warm. Not warm enough to fry an egg on, but definitely warm to the touch. It’s perfectly appropriate that her AUD model transformer was warm because wherever there is electricity, there’s also heat—like where there’s smoke there’s fire, and thunder and lightning, and other dualities in life. Electricity is the result of subatomic particles—electrons and protons—that are charged either positively (protons) or negatively (electrons) and interacting with each other. Protons attract electrons and vice-versa. Two protons or two electrons are repellent to each other, as are two negatively charged electrons. Opposites attract, right? The interaction of protons and electrons creates electromagnetic charge or...
