It seems than at Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:27:43 -0500, George wrote: > I has been properly covered that you do not feed a transformer > with the out put of a 'chopper dimmer.. > However if the question is can you connect a rectifier to the > out put of a stage variac type dimmer, that could be a viable > solution. Remember it could make some EM type noise that could > get into sound systems. > > If the question is can you connect an rectifier to the out put > of a triac dimmer that could be another can of worms ...a > dimer is a 2 wire device that returns its control through the > load. might need something like a 60w or so lamp as a load for > the dimmer and the 1/2 wave load connected in parallel with > it .. > > George Larribeau
It's a triac or SCR-pair solid state dimmer panel controlled via DMX. But I'm not sure I follow you all the way through. Are you saying that I may need to put in two diodes, one conducting forward through the big lamp and the other reverse through a 60W load? Or did I miss something important? -- Philip _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
