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At 04:45 PM 3/5/2006, Will Matney wrote:
>That or a choke with enough inductive reactance to drop the voltage
>as that's all a variac is.
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Can't believe you said that, Will.
A variac is a transformer, not a choke. With a choke, the amount of
voltage drop depends on the amount of current drawn, while with a
variac it does not.
73, Bill W6WRT
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