Re: Variac

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Original poster: "Finn Hammer by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <f-h-at-c.dk>

Tim!

My name is Finn Hammer, and I made that variac. It was fun, educating
etc. I sort of needed to prove to myself that I could do it.
Now that I know that, let me say that it is not worthwile from the point
of view of just getting a variac.
There are many aspects of variac making that you cannot learn by
yourself, and really need to take a variac apart to learn. Also,
materials may not be so easy to get. Mine is long gone, it started to
smoke during a 1 hour run, and I decided to discontinue it, since I ran
across a car-trunk full of Staco`s at the recycle center one day.
So, unless you are completely unable to gather some cash to buy a used
variac, here are a couple of pictures to point you in the right
direction.

http://home5.inet.tele.dk/f-hammer/tesla/museum/variac/variac.htm

Cheers, Finn Hammer

Tesla list skriver:
 >
 > Original poster: "Tim Walrath by way of Terry Fritz 
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <warpath-at-wtp-dot-net>
 >
 > Hi, It's been a while but I seem to remember that there was a sight
 > where a homemade variac was described. I am wanting to build one. Can
 > someone steer me in the right direction ? I am building a 15/60 nst TC
 > using Terry's plans.
 > Thanks, Tim Walrath