Re: Did i kill my variac?

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Original poster: "Gerry Reynolds" <gerryreynolds-at-earthlink-dot-net> 

Probably not the variac but I wonder if you killed the meter movement.  If
you have a volt meter, measure what is across the variac meter.  Im
interpreting what you say to mean the actual output of the variac is OK but
the meter says 0V?

Gerry R

 > Original poster: Beans45601-at-aol-dot-com
 >
 > Hi there, I just got my 4th (and last... maybe) coil done, and I got it
all
 > running. But, it turns out, I needed my top load to be higher, and I got a
 > couple of primary hits (This is a PT coil). After the primary hits, the
 > breaker popped, and I fixed that, raised the top load more, and turned on
 > the coil, but, my variac said it was at 0%, but it was actually running at
 > the full power. Did I just fry my variac? its a 30amp variac, and it seems
 > to me like it would take more than a couple of primary hits to kill one of
 > these. I didn't have any sort of high voltage protection (safety gaps...
 > ect...). I can't see anything wrong with it, do you think I fried it?
 >
 >