I'm not an engineer, but don't you have to be careful about phase controlling a transformer? Josh -- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. -Douglas Adams "Eisermann, Phil [Ridg/CO]" wrote: > I'm using an alternistor to trigger a transformer. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.