Re: purpose of a variac?

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Original poster: "Gerry  Reynolds" <gerryreynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Bart,

I bet this is the real reason that an SRSG needs to be rephased as 
the power is brought up.  Other theories were the leakage inductance 
in the variac and the nonlinarities of the NST.  Dmitry will be happy :-))

Gerry R


> Original poster: "Barton B. Anderson" <bartb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> An rsg is (normally) adjusted for minimal electrode spacing. It 
> "will" fire at reduced voltages. I haven't read the documents your 
> referring to, but I can only assume their thinking rsg (if static 
> gap, then I would agree). Rsg's will fire at reduced voltages.

As the
> voltage is turned up by the variac, the electrodes will arc sooner 
> (before alignment).
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