RE: Help with my rotary gap (and other tuning problems).....

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Original poster: "Lau, Gary" <gary.lau@xxxxxx>

If you're blowing fuses, and the fuses are just in series with the cap,
and if your motor is in parallel with the cap/fuse, I think there is a
problem with your cap.  Are you sure it's a motor *RUN* cap, and not a
START cap?  Is it metal cased?  What does it say on it?

Regards, Gary Lau
MA, USA

> Original poster: "Adam R." <arabraxas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The variac is an Ohmite 3 amp 0-135v.....and the motor is an Oriental
.03A
> 7.5w. I'm using a 47uF cap for adjustment.
>
> I know someone who used the same (except a different variac) setup and
it
> worked well....
>
> The variac has numbers on it (1-5). Just by experimenting with it, it
seems
> they are "standard", with 3 being the tap, etc.
>
> I had it hooked up in a variety of configurations on none worked, the
fuses
> blew each time. Eventually I could find one that works? I had the
variac
> setup as in variable inductor set in series with the "inlet" of the
motor.
>