Considering I am still not comfortable with the fact that I OBVIOUSLY don't
know much about electrical safety (hence my jolt), I am not even going to
attempt this. Thankfully, I found an old xformer lying around that HAPPENED to
dish out 30V instead of ~50... and it works beautifully with the whole setup!
The only thing I can't figure out is that it seems to have 2 centertaps: One
for the primary, and one for the secondary. I just left the primary middle
wire unconnected (actually just chopped it off incase I touched THAt by
accident), and connected the secondary centertap.

Quoting Roman Black <fastvid@EZY.NET.AU>:

> Jinx wrote:
> >
> > > Find the point where the 2 wires exit the transformer
> > > and are soldered onto the centre tap pin. Then cut one wire,
> > > and re-solder it as 28v in PARALLEL so you get twice the
> > > current. Probably takes 10 minutes and saves you buying a
> > > new transformer.
> > > -Roman
> >
> > Not 100% on this, good idea, but wouldn't the windings need
> > to be in phase ? If so, how would you do that safely (temporary
> > series resistor ?) or would you just measure the voltage - if in
> > phase it would be 28V, if out of phase, 0V ?
>
>
> Ha ha! You're serious? When paralleling 2 transformers
> or 2 transformer windings, just connect 2 wires then stick
> an AC voltmeter across the remaining 2 wires. If it reads
> double AC volts you guessed it wrong, if it reads close
> to 0v you got it right. Or just put your tongue across
> the 2 remaining leads... Jinxian roulette. ;o)
> -Roman
>
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