Re: Variac fix

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• Subject: Re: Variac fix
• From: "Choad" <choad69-at-geocities-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 05:14:54 -0600
• Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
• Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

Alan,
    Looks like one side and the wiper was pluged in and caused the wire to
burn up. I don't know how many turns are burned but you may be able to strip
the turns off till you get to the good ones. That is if it's jsut a few
turns like it looks. If not you might have to rewind the whole thing.
> Hi all,
> I bought a Suprior Electric Powerstat Variac rated -at- 16.7 amps a few weeks
> back. Tonight I finally got around to looking at it. Taking Ross'
> suggestion, i opened up the variac and cleaned it out. I carefully removed
> all parts and cleaned the housing first.(I was being lazy and didn't want
to
> deal w/ the actual variac yet) When i finally got to teh wire coil, i
> noticed that in the inside, part of the wire was black, and that it was
> broken. Further moving of the wire caused it to fall right off. Now i have
a
> wire sticking out of this variac. A picture of this is at
> http://members.xoom-dot-com/hvfreak/variac%20wire.JPG
> After i moved this wire a little, some black stuff started to crumble off
> the coil and i'm not sure if this is normal. A picture of this black stuff
> is at http://members.xoom-dot-com/hvfreak/variac1.JPG
> I'm presuming that this broken wire is bad and the black stuff is caused
> because this wire was burned out? How can i fix this?
> Thanks ahead for any imput on how to fix it.
> -Alan

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