<div dir="ltr">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.<div>Steve Rees</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Jerry Durand via Stagecraft <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<font face="Arial">I was assuming this was driving a step-down and
the specific model was asked for because somebody else has one and
it works.</font><span class=""><br>
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<div>On 04/27/2015 07:56 AM, Nigel Worsley
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<blockquote type="cite">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.
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Nigel Worsley
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