Why is my transformer overheating occur?

It may be shorted or overloaded.

Excessive Load, shorted windings, wrong transformer?

Help us please.

What transformer?

Don, who cares what transformer.

Just answer the question.

Strat added a good one, possible wrong unit.

If people do not want to use a lot of words or provide details, to ask questions, give simple answers.

I care simply because I want to make sure this poster is playing around on Utility transformer.

I realize it is unlikely, but you never know for sure if you do not ask.

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Originally Posted by tkrussell

If people do not want to use a lot of words or provide details, to ask questions, give simple answers.

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I completely agree. :cool:

The above question is like going to an auto forum and asking simply "Why is my car overheating?"

I tend to ignore such cryptic questions. It's not worth my time to reply with every possible scenario or possibility when a bit more detail in the question would eliminate 50% or more of them.
Then on top of that consider that many folks never return to check the replies or to give more detail. That is truly rude IMO.

TK and Strat did the best anyone could do considering the original question.

Okay, I can live with that. And yes I can also agree on TK and Strat and for that matter you're not so bad either. That's why I will always defer to your answers and pull any dumb answers off a post as soon as I am notified.

So from here on, a simplistic question will get a simplistic answer.

Hmm you never know about the utility xfer. I did not think about that. But the guy in the picture was close.

Don ,I don't mean it in a scolding fashion, but consultative. Time for you to ask and wait for an answer for more detail, I suggest to get an answer out quickly. I should add asking for more detail, to be fair, but I ask so many times I get none. I can be a bit grumpy and give back what I get, subliminally perhaps, to illustrate the poor question.

I should consider that if someone has the time to delve in deeper, then go for it. If that is the case, tell me, and I will let up on the strap, so to speak.

I believe your older than me, and I was raised to respect my elders. Or I got the strap. The good ole days.

I thoroughly enjoyed this pic when I first saw it. I sent it yo my brother in NY. He was a Fire Marshal for the FDNY.

He noted that noting appeared to be out of whack, but he did ask me when the wake and funeral were held.

I take no ill will from any one's corrections. Better to get it correct than to pay the price for bad info.

As to age, I grew up in the Bronx, NYC. So I have to ask you, what is a strap, is that something kin to the belt?

I'm 64, soon to be 65.