>JD> My old home-made charger works great. It's only capable of 
 >JD> about 6 amps continuous, has a Variac on the primary so I
 > 
 > now,  and can't see tying up a variac that way,  since I've only got 
 > the one...
I picked up this one years ago and built it into the charger when I made it. 
It's only about 250 watts, but that's plenty for my transformer.
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