Re: Stacking Variacs - shaft material

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• Subject: Re: Stacking Variacs - shaft material
• From: ghub005-at-xtra.co.nz (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 20:19:02 -0700
• Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
• Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

Eric, a steel shaft is fine. A toroidal core has almost no flux leakage.

Gavin Hubbard


>Original Poster: Eric Leighton <ELeighton-at-portdiscovery-dot-org> 
>
>I want to stack the two 10A variacs I have, and want to know what material
>the shared shaft has to be.  The original shaft is 3/8" aluminum, and I have
>some 3/8" stainless tubing that I think will work, as long as it doesn't
>have to be aluminum.  I figured that plain old (magnetic) steel might not be
>so good for a shaft that goes through the core, no?
>
>I'll ask about the choke I'll need for ganging these later, after I've
>reviewed what I found in the archives.
>
>Eric Forsman
>Baltimore
>
>
>


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