In article >, "James Silverton" <not.jim.siverton.at.comcast.not> wrote:
>Hello, Bill!
>You wrote on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:03:35 -0800:
>
> B> This would be sort of like a dimmer switch for a light where
> B> you can adjust how much light is output from the bulb.
>
> B> The way electric ranges work now is they go on and off, on
> B> and off.

Bit like a switching power supply in fact? :-)
[I suspect the sort of thing you're after, given the currents
involved, would require a pretty substantial variable transformer.]

> B> Less heat means the "burner" goes on for a little while,
> B> then off for quite awhile. Then with more heat, the "burner"
> B> is on for a long time, then off for a little amount of time.
>
>I don't know if such "variable" ranges exist but the off and on
>process seems to work OK if the response is fast as it seems to
>be on my stove. I wonder how variable heat would work, not I
>hope like the dimmer on my outside lights that kills fluorescent
>bulbs on the same circuit!

Cheers, Phred.

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