I would be more inclined to find out what the variac is doing to the amplifier
and fix that. Not to experiment

I don't have measurement equipment unfortunately, apart from my usual DVM. what
is the actual construction of a variac? I had imagined it was an isolation
toroid with a large series of taps off the secondary. Andy

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