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Why does your power drain as soon as you put a load on it?

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It could be a couple of things. Voltage drop is one, if the distance of the load is too far from the source of power this will happen. The other thing is if you are using a step down transformer and it is under sized, as soon as you apply the load the transformer output will drop off. If this condition lasts the transformer will eventual fail.

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