Possible to lower voltage?

Ralle · Post by **Ralle** » Fri Apr 20, 2012 12:55 pm

Hey guys.
Question:
Is it possible to lower the dcv, by hooking up some sort of resistor on the primary terminals of the PT?
If this is a stupid question, please bare with me...

Ralle · Post by **Ralle** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 9:01 am

Anything happening here?

neikeel · Post by **neikeel** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 11:22 am

Ralle wrote:Hey guys.
Question:
Is it possible to lower the dcv, by hooking up some sort of resistor on the primary terminals of the PT?
If this is a stupid question, please bare with me...

Isn't that what your variac is doing?

Or did you mean a resistor like this?:
http://www.amparchives.com/album/Marsha ... .sshot.jpg

http://www.amparchives.com/album/Marsha ... index.html

Ralle · Post by **Ralle** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 4:31 pm

I don't have a variac, so I figurerd a resistor like the one in the pic would do the trick... Is that what it does?
What effect and value would I need?

Reeltarded · Post by **Reeltarded** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 2:02 pm

You can drop global B+ with zeners too. If you google it, there are a bunch of folks with 100watters dropping specific amounts. They get hot, but so do those huge resistors. You can make that thing Neil shows variable though. It's like half an Air Brake, so..

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