Grant, can you post of a picture of how it is wired exactly.

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On 2007-10-10, wrote:
On Oct 10, 8:29 am, Grant Erwin wrote:


I believe the variac and my electrical circuits are both in good working
condition, in other words I don't believe this is faulty behavior.


Yet your experimental evidence suggests otherwise. With no load, the
variac should draw negligible current at any setting.