Re: Variacs and current draw

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Matt,

About 14 amps!!  Variacs can be pushed pretty hard but a 5 amp variac is
probably really too small.  But...  If you add 200uF of PFC caps then you would
be at 8 amps which would probably be in range of a 5 amp varaic.

Cheers,

        Terry


At 05:19 PM 10/11/2002 -0400, you wrote: 

>
> How much current would the average 12/60 transformer draw. The reason I m
> asking is that I want to use a variac with it but I don t know which one I
> can get. Is 5amps enough?
>
>  
>
> Matt