Re: Panel and bench mounting of variacs?

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Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>


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Subject: Panel and bench mounting of variacs?


> Original poster: "Jonathan Peakall by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jpeakall-at-mcn-dot-org>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have 2 questions about hooking up my variacs.
>
> 1) What is the difference between panel and bench mounting? The variac
diagram
> shows using different input and output terminals depending on whether it
is
> panel or bench mounted. What's up with that?

Clockwise vs counterclockwise rotation to increase the voltage, usually...


>
> 2) No matter what terminals I end up using, the capacitor for the variac
should
> be connected across the mains, right?
Cap should be across the NST

>
> Thanks again again,
>
> Jonathan Peakall
>
>
>