Original poster: "Steve Cook by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <steve-at-g8cyerichmond.freeserve.co.uk> Does anyone have any experience running solid state power control rather than using Variacs, what I'm looking for is something in the region of 500VA, -at- 240V, to feed a NST. I know most simple circuits don't like inductive loads.