Re: Going, Going...

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Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "Andy Cobaugh by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <kb3ewy-at-rcn-dot-com>
> 
> Unless of course you have a micro switch to turn the variac off when it is
> at "zero" :-) That's the way mine is (the controller is a modified control
> box for dielectric testing: www.hipotronics-dot-com )
> 
> Andy, KB3EWY
> http://users.rcn-dot-com/tcobaugh/andy/tesla.htm

	It's probably worth mentioning that, unless you've been very careful
that your switch opens the "hot" side of the line, you might still have
a big voltage to ground.  Modern 3-wire circuits suitable installed are
supposed to solve that problem, but I'd still be careful.

Ed