Re: My Bush TV43 restoration.
You can't use a light dimmer as a variac
Reason? A light dimmer 'chops up' the AC waveform and effectively feeds pulses of AC to a lamp hence the light is dimmer. Just how many pulses (= mark/space ratio) are fed to the lamp depends on where the dimmer control is set. A TV will not like 'chopped up' AC.
Besides with the lamp in circuit, you don't need anything else. Suggest you use a couple of 60 watt lamp in parallel but don't bother with the dimmer.
Rich
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