Transformers

Tons of products use transformers. Just walk around your home and we bet you'll find at least 10 if not more.

They are used with scanners, printers, speakers, cordless phones, answering machines, camcorders, clocks,

electric drills, baby monitors, and many other common items. Farnsworth Electronics, Inc. offers a wide variety

of AC/AC and AC/DC Power Transformers along with In-Line Transformers, Control Transformers, Step Down Transformers, Line Matching Transformers, Isolation Transformers, Adjustable Transformers and others.

We offer the finest transformers from various vendors.

We've got one of our featured vendors, Philmore Manufacturing's catalog available online.

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Did you know when transformers are plugged into the wall the consume power even if they aren't hooked

directly to a device? It's true. They also waste power when powering a device. If you have ever felt one

and it was warm, that is wasted energy turned to heat. The power consumption is not large -- on the

order of 1 to 5 watts per transformer. But it does add up. Let's say that you have 10 of them,

and they consume 5 watts each. That means that 50 watts are being wasted constantly. If a kilowatt-

hour costs a dime in your area, that means you are spending a dime every 20 hours. That's about $44

every year down the drain. Or, think of it this way -- there are roughly 100 million households in the

United States. If each household wastes 50 watts on these transformers, that's a total of 5 billion watts.

As a nation, that's half a million dollars wasted every hour, or $4,380,000,000 wasted every year!

Think of what you could do with 4 billion dollars.

Information taken from howstuffworks.com