Category: General LinuxCNC Questions
I was wrong with saturation. I'm used to small ferrite toroidal transformers wich are sensible to saturation, but your is surely iron core. Like Tommy said, the limit is the temperature.
And even with ferrite, it's only one magnetic circuit, so saturation would only appear when the total windings current exceed the maximum of the transformer.
We don't care of unbalanced current between windings.
Tommy advice is to overload it and check the temperature, I agree it works, put the right fuse after test on the output and then. Are you even sure you will overload it ? Maybe not !
I would although consider to change it because I think it's a small one (you don't say how many amps you have), and I have many unused transformers. Maybe you don't. Have a look around you, it's easy to find some...
Doing a power supply.. For me no, if you put the three in series you will have 90VAC, better to use directly 120VAC or 240VAC in this case.
But once again, I assume your transformer is a small one (300VA ?), it's not the same if it's a 2kVA one, but in this case you wouldn't need to worry for the third driver.