Douglas Johnson
January 3rd, 2005, 10:42 AM
For a short film, I need to dim a neon sign to simulate a short circuit.
Will I damage the transformer by using a standard household light dimmer on the AC to the transformer?
The dimming would only be for short blinks.
Thank you,
Douglas
Keith Loh
January 3rd, 2005, 01:37 PM
And I came to this thread expecting robots.
Greg Boston
January 3rd, 2005, 08:57 PM
Doug,
If you want to do this, buy the dimmer that is meant for inductive rather than resistive loads. A neon sign as you stated, uses a step up transformer and is therefore a coil which is an inductive load as opposed to a regular lamp filament which is a resistive load.
You would be more likely to burn up the dimmer unit if you used the wrong one.
Be careful. Let us know how it works out.
=gb=
Douglas Johnson
January 3rd, 2005, 10:23 PM
Dear Greg:
Thanks so much. Will search out the correct dimmer.
Regards,
Douglas