Get off your high horse and do some real listening.
It is clear you don't know much about the dangers of mains electricity and what can happen if your mains transformer is incorrectly wired up or incorrectly modified. And worst of all that some ningcompoop tries to rewind the primary without any knowledge. Your first post puts you into this last category.
Maybe I should have have been honest enough to have said that in my first post. My mistake.
I see that basically no one answered the actual original question you asked so I hope this is helpful.
No, the 240V windings would be wound with a somewhat smaller gauge since the mains voltage is doubled and therefore for a given power the current is halved. Barring core losses at the lower frequency power consumed in the transformer would be similar.
That said in Israel the economics of rewinding the transformer for 240V operation are not very attractive. (With care you can do it, I have, but it's not fun or easy.)
You do have several other choices; you could use a 240:120V autotransformer as suggested; you could have a local winder make you a new transformer with the correct specifications; you could purchase a new Hammond with dual primaries.
My family lived in Tel Aviv in the late 1960s and used an autotransformer to run our entire American stereo system, did have to modify the turntable pulley for 50Hz, but it worked. 😀
Shalom
Kevin,
posts 2, 4 & 5 give him all the information he needed.
But he seemed to not want to hear the advice.
posts 2, 4 & 5 give him all the information he needed.
But he seemed to not want to hear the advice.
post #2 was enough to get it done....period..
his own idea was confirmed there...he said he wanted to do...
all the other posts were merely noise...
his own idea was confirmed there...he said he wanted to do...
all the other posts were merely noise...
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