[Amps] New Variaic Question

[Will Matney]

Rich,

Yes, it sure will and is what it's designed to do. Another member on here  
and myself done some investagating on surge currents and it was surprising  
about how many cycles it takes for a transformer to completely level out  
(about 20-25 if I remember on the one test). The first few cycles (about  
six) was really when it drew the most and were talking a HUGE amount.  
Richard Measures was looking at one a while back, and it came up to over  
100 amperes at startup.

Will



On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:59:18 -0600, Rich <rdjmgmt at socket.net> wrote:

> I am building my first amp , now starting on the power supply. It will
> have a 240v 10 amp Powerstat. I have a 4 pole "latching" relay that I
> think I will wire so it has a safety drop out , then a DPDT relay with
> my soft start resistors. The last variac that I set up to control
> voltage for a tesla coil always caused a problem when I plugged it in.
> It would blow to 20 amp circuit breaker even though the system pulled
> less than an amp at idle.  I would have to try several times to get it
> to stay on line. The only thing wired in was the variac and a 24v
> control transformer.
> I am hoping to avoid any problems with the HV system as I build it, will
> the soft start system take care of the instantaneous inductive load that
> it appears I was getting with my other variac ?
> Rich /  kd0zz
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