Looking at the transformer

Posted by Katharine M. J. Osborne May 12, 2006

Ever since childhood, I've been fascinated with electronic equipment. My father would bring home bits and pieces of electrical devices from his job in the military - I prefer to think that they were surplus parts. I had boxes of parts, wires, magnets and batteries. I rarely decided to construct anything useful, but was happy instead connecting various parts in different combinations just to see what would happen. I think my father, who must have assumed I was going to be a proper little girl, was surprised that I liked such things, and also surprised that a tiny burnt out motor was far better received than the gaudiest doll.

So now I am going to share my love of all things electrical with you, beginning with the transformer.