Re: Overamping variac

On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 02:48:33 GMT, Paul Monaghan
<monaghan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

which
on the output draws from 2.25 to 2.37amps at 25-30vac.

That's about 2/3 amp at 120; you can run it forever, and it'll be the
fan, not the variac, that burns out.

BTW, I think they run closer to 18 volts -- P2 fans aren't that
sturdy, I've gone through 3 of them driving them directly off the
variac -- they tend to self destruct around 25 volts
.

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