Re: Input power measurement

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Original poster: "davep by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <davep-at-quik-dot-com>


>I actually just had a problem that is similar to what

>you are talking about. I was running my 9/120 NST coil

>at the school yesterday and all of a sudden, the coil

>stopped running. Scared the crap out of me, thinking I

>killed my transformer. Instead, the 12 amp fuse on the

>variac gave out. Odd, seeing as the NST should only pull

>9 amps.

         Maybe.

>Does that mean I might be overstressing my 10 amp variac?

         Mildly.  They will take a lot of that for 5-10 minutes
         at a time...

         best
         dwp

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