How to determine voltage on transformer

[seanspotatobusiness]

I have what I think is a transformer and I've got mains voltage going in at the top of the image and I'm trying to measure the voltage that I get from the bottom of the image with a DMM set to 500 V AC. The top resistor is 33K and the bottom resistor is 20R. When I apply mains voltage to this circuit I get a reading of 0 V on the DMM but I'm expecting some value much higher than 0 V. Have I set it up wrong? Is this thing not a transformer?





[Mod Note -- image resized]

 

[davenn]

I have what I think is a transformer and I've got mains voltage going in at the top of the image and I'm trying to measure the voltage that I get from the bottom of the image with a DMM set to 500 V AC. The top resistor is 33K and the bottom resistor is 20R. When I apply mains voltage to this circuit I get a reading of 0 V on the DMM but I'm expecting some value much higher than 0 V. Have I set it up wrong? Is this thing not a transformer?

1) what is wrong is that this isn't a mains power transformer ... it isn't even a transformer
it's a dual filter inductor that usually will have a couple of high voltage capacitors associated with it

if it wasn't for your resistors ... you would have had a big bang, a cloud of smoke and a shower of sparks





2) .... on another note .... can you please resize images before uploading or linking to them
this one was huge ... I have resized it to a max of 1000 pixels on the longest side

 

[seanspotatobusiness]

Sorry; I thought the forum software automatically limited the size of the image.

Thanks for the information!