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    Zoomed rheostat

    Does anyone use these? I bought two of them and hooked one up to a lamp to see what it would do and it didn't visibly dim the bulb at all... I'm I misunderstanding how these are suppose to work?

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    What type of bulb was in the lamp? Heat lamp?
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    Re: Zoomed rheostat

    Quote Originally Posted by Scubaf250 View Post
    Does anyone use these? I bought two of them and hooked one up to a lamp to see what it would do and it didn't visibly dim the bulb at all... I'm I misunderstanding how these are suppose to work?
    I have one and it works great, yours might be defective as some products are, and i can visually see it dimming what ever i hook into it.

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    I use one to control the fan speed of a fan in my incubator, works great.
    Last edited by snakesRkewl; 07-25-2012 at 06:36 PM.
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    Re: Zoomed rheostat

    Quote Originally Posted by snakesRkewl View Post
    I use one to control the fan speed of a fan in my incubator, works great.
    X2

    but I have 3 of them, one got warrantied because it didnt work out of the box

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    It was just a 60w light bulb in the lamp on my nightstand. I had a heat pad that was running unregulated (no animals in the set up, the pad came from a friend and I wanted to make sure it wasn't going to melt or anything) and it worked to turn the electricity down to it and lowered the temp. I think the second outlet on the unit is faulty and thats why it didn't dim the bulb but that's ok =P I only need one haha

    Thanks guys!

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    Re: Zoomed rheostat

    Quote Originally Posted by snakesRkewl View Post
    I use one to control the fan speed of a fan in my incubator, works great.
    Nice, so i am not the only one thinking of using my rheostat to control the fan speed in my incubator as well. Glad to hear that it works!

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