Re: Toaster Oven dimmer ?

Joerg wrote:
> Hello Martin,
>
>> this was in circuit cellar
>> http://www.circuitcellar.com/library/print/0704/Lacoste_168/

Yes, thanks.
I've seen similar article. But I was wondering if using a a dimmer to
for example be able to set the heaters to 50% of it's nominal power
would be better/worse than just turning it on/off bruptly.


> To be honest I didn't even know that there were toaster ovens with
> quartz top heaters.

Is it really necessary to have top quartz heaters ? I just did 3 stores
and none of them had quartz heater. They all had classical resistors
(either in S shape, or several straight line ).


> Guess I am barbequeing too much (ribs yesterday).

I'm more a merguez type of guy ;)



Sylvain
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