[SML] hot wire foam carving transformer

[Stephen Rees]

Not certain of the math involved here, but I have seen control an 8'-0"
length of 20 ga. NiChrome wire for foam carving using  a 600w household
dimmer.
Steve Rees

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Jerry Durand via Stagecraft <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

>  I was assuming this was driving a step-down and the specific model was
> asked for because somebody else has one and it works.
>
> On 04/27/2015 07:56 AM, Nigel Worsley via Stagecraft wrote:
>
> Unless, of course, the variac is followed by a stepdown transformer. But
> if this were the case then I don't see why such a big variac is required.
>
> Nigel Worsley
>
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