Did i kill my variac?

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Original poster: Beans45601-at-aol-dot-com 

Hi there, I just got my 4th (and last... maybe) coil done, and I got it all 
running. But, it turns out, I needed my top load to be higher, and I got a 
couple of primary hits (This is a PT coil). After the primary hits, the 
breaker popped, and I fixed that, raised the top load more, and turned on 
the coil, but, my variac said it was at 0%, but it was actually running at 
the full power. Did I just fry my variac? its a 30amp variac, and it seems 
to me like it would take more than a couple of primary hits to kill one of 
these. I didn't have any sort of high voltage protection (safety gaps... 
ect...). I can't see anything wrong with it, do you think I fried it?