Re: Use of Variac, Necesary?

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Daniel,

Some people use large high wattage light bulbs or heating elements in
series with the NST primary to drop the voltage and basically provide lower
power input settings.  While a variac is super nice, Light bulbs are cheap
and easy.

Cheers,

	Terry


At 05:05 PM 3/18/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi all, this is the question:
>
>Many coil builders hook up a variac at the
>transformer's primary.  It is necesary?  May I
>eliminate the variac?  I have an NST, 7Kv, 30mA.
>
>Cheers,
>Daniel 
>
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