Re: Dimmer as a Variac.

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Original poster: "Alexander Rice by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <ajjrice-at-yahoo-dot-com>

> > You bet!  Running that little TO-220 thing into a highly reactive load
> (but
> > my coils are PFC corrected) with "strange things" being reflected
> backwards
> > from the spark gaps and all will be a "challenge" for the dimmer!! :-))
> > There is also the radiated and conducted in noise and such that may
affect
> > their operation.

Hi

i remember reading somewhere about someone on one of the neon related
websites wanting to use a dimmer to controll an nst and the result initially
was a burned dimmer, he had to make some mods to get it to work, i will try
to figure out where it was and post it

Alex