Re: how do you mount a variac?

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Original poster: "Jonathon Reinhart by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <TC_Jonathon-at-hotmail-dot-com>

Even if the resistors did steal a little efficiency, I'd trade that in for
the safety factor...

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Jonathon Reinhart
hot-streamer-dot-com/jonathon

 >
 > If a 10 meg ohm resistor has 1000 volts RMS across it (worst case), we are
 > talking less than 1/10th watt.  So, say 50 resistors are 5 watts.  Might
as
 > well be zero...  The bleed resistors are a trivially small percent of a
 > coil's power loss.  that loss is constant as long as the power is on.
They
 > just drain the thing down once the power is removed.  Without bleeder
 > resistors, the voltage stays high for weeks!!!  Five seconds of drain time
 > is not a factor when the cap charges at 1/120th of a second normally.
 >
 > Cheers,
 >
 >          Terry