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Re: variac, dimmer switch?
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- Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 20:43:41 -0700
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Original poster: "Dr. Resonance" <resonance@xxxxxxxxxx>
No, unfortunately, you have to use a variac. The dimmers don't work very
well with inductive loads.
Dr. Resonance
>
> Can you use a dimmer switch to control the input voltage to a NST or is
> that just asking for trouble?
> NST is probably going to be 30mA and 12kV that I can use for larger coils
> in the future, but the coil I'm building is probably considered really
> small.