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Originally Posted by Baja_Traveler
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Unless you go very high dollar, step down transformers use resistors to drop the voltage, wasting the excess energy as heat.
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Actually step-up/down transformers don't generally use resistors, they just use coils and an iron core. Using resistors to achieve a voltage drop is a simple circuit that does indeed burn off excess energy as heat.
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