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Originally Posted by Electronic M
I may take flack for this, but in a pinch on a few occaisions where my variac was in a different part of the country than me I've pluged sets into outlets ( you can get adapters for light sockets too) that were controled by a dimmer switch to do about the same thing a variac does (ie start the set at 0v and slowly work my way up to line voltage).
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I may be wrong, but I suspect that this shortcut would not work well for a set with a power transformer (such as the Magnavox pictured), as these switches are not designed to work with an inductive load. Might be ok for an older transformer-less set with series string heaters.
jr