Re: Balancing Variacs

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• Subject: Re: Balancing Variacs
• From: Mark Finnis <mefinnis-at-medicine.adelaide.edu.au> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 22:31:15 -0600
• Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
• Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

Hi Bert,

At 07:41 2/07/99 -0500, you wrote:
(for the benefit of the list, the thread was about using 1:1 transformers 
for ganging variacs in parallel)

>You're correct - each transformer winding must carry approximately the
>current of a single variac. Although I've not actually seen one of
>these, they supposedly are much smaller than the variacs they
>interconnect. For relatively closely matched variacs they should only
>need to handle (at maximum) a few volts per winding. Good luck, Mark,
>and keep us posted!

A picture is worth a 1000 words, or something like that ;-)

Check out ......

         http://www.cobweb-dot-com.au/~dkfinnis/control_box.htm

I think this was one of my better finds ;-)

cheers

mark

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