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<p>[quote user="richhotrain"]</p> <div class="quote-header"> </div> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">cacole</div> <div class="quote-content"> <p> </p> <div class="quote-header"> </div> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">BMMECNYC</div> <div class="quote-content"> <p>All 8 PSX breakers have melted shrink wrap on their transformers. </p> <p> </p> </div> </blockquote> <div class="quote-footer"> </div> <p> </p> <p>The PSX board do NOT have shrink wrap on their transformers, unless you're referring to the light tan colored insulation that is wrapped around their windings.</p> <p>If there is some other type of shrink wrap around the transformers that appears to have been melted, the owner may possibly have inadvertently applied 110 Volt AC or similar high voltage to them.</p> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <p> </p> </div> </blockquote> <div class="quote-footer"> </div> <p> </p> <p>That's what he must be referring to, and so the question is, has that insulation melted somehow?</p> <p> </p> <p>Rich</p> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p>Im guessing its insulation, not shink wrap.   It looks as if it was at one time white but now the edges around the hole are a tan color with coils of the transformer clearly visible.  The remainder of the insulation is white.  I would say that it is melted.</p>
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