triacs

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Original poster: "Mr Gregory Peters by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <s371034-at-student.uq.edu.au>

Hi all,

A fellow at uni gave me half a dozen 30 A triacs for free today. Is 
there anyway I can use these in parallel or whatever to replace a 
variac? I have never seen anyone use a triac for voltage regulation for 
a tesla coil before.
Without going into to much technical jargon, why not?

Cheers,

Greg Peters
Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Queensland, Australia
Phone: 0402 841 677
http://www.geocities-dot-com/gregjpeters