Re: John Freau's Motor Phase Controller Design

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <FutureT-at-aol-dot-com>

Dan,

I never tried a smaller variac, but your guess seems reasonable
to me.  Please report the results if you try it.  

John


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> Regarding John Freau's Motor Phase Controller:
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> http://hometown.aol-dot-com/futuret/page3.html
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>
> In his design, he is using a relatively large variac.  What would the
> implications be of of using a smaller variac,
> say a 2A, 120V variac?  I guess in this case we are using the variac as a
> variable inductor, so the inductor values may be different.  I guess, a 2A
> 120V variac could be used, but the capacitor value would have to be changed
> accordingly.
>
> Dan
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