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Re: variac voltage out (fwd)



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Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:53:34 -0400
From: Skip Malley <skip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: variac voltage out (fwd)

It will get very hot very fast.  The core saturates and makes some 
very nasty looking current waveforms where the peaks get very 
high.  Any magnetic device should be used very close to it's 
ratings.  The designers have already pushed it to it's limits.

Skip

At 05:33 PM 6/13/2007, you wrote:

>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:43:38 -0400
>From: Scott Bogard <teslas-intern@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: variac voltage out
>
>Hey all,
>      can you put 240V through a 0-140V variac to get 280 out, or will it
>melt or saturate or any other bad things happen to it?  Thanks a bunch.
>Scott Bogard
>
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