Re: NO VARIAC USE FOR TUNING?

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• Subject: Re: NO VARIAC USE FOR TUNING?
• From: "Mike Nolley" <mnolley-at-mail.slc.edu> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 17:46:15 -0700
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> > >  Is it possible to use one of those light dimmers you have on your walls
> > >  to control the voltage?

> Dimmer switches can be found at every hardware store for only a couple
> bucks.  A
> standard electrical box is only a few cents.  The inexpensive light-dimmer
> switches are generally rate at 600Watts at 120V (5amps).

    Just a thought; would it be possible to parallel multiple dimmers for
higher
powers?  You would need to insure that they were loaded equally; for
example you
could cut slots in the knobs, insert sufficiently rigid plates which were all
connected by hinges to a horizontally moving plate.  Or somehow attach them
all to
a common shaft.  Would this not work?
        Comments?
                --Mike

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