Transformer power usage

Update: Transformer did fail within a week of light use (20W). The (plastic) supports for the buses adjacent to the primary winding were reduced to a crater of black powder and soot. All nearby wiring had heat damage to the insulation, with the whites completely bare and crispy for the last inch to the bus. Whites seem to have melted from the inside.

Thank you all for your advice. I do understand now that an unloaded transformer does not consume considerable wattage. Minimal losses less than 5% are normal to typical transformers.

Time to buy another transformer. Thanks! Scott

Please beware of how P. A. in Australia gets to be a Usenet irritant from Australia, possibly arguably 2nd-place to Auastralia's worst sub-troll who got a FAQ onto himself (only mildly-slightly out-of-date if over 10 years old), whose primary sub-troling name is "Rod Speed".

I sometimes wonder if P.A. and R.S. are both "mental patients" at the same psychiatric ward at some locality in Australia.

I invite either of these to exercize emotional maturity achiecving growth to extent of posting anything indicating significant growth of emotional maturity past the juvenile postings typical of both even so far in 2009.

Best Regards with Goog Hopes,

- Don Klipstein (Jr) ( snipped-for-privacy@misty.com)