From: whit3rd@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, December 14, 2017 at 4:49:49 PM UTC-8, mrda...@gmail.com wrote:   
   > Hi everyone,   
   >   
   > When regulating the power to a motor or light, does the triac do so   
   efficiently or does it dump the unwanted power as heat, as a linear voltage   
   regulator does?   
      
   Efficiently (maybe 2-3% loss) at full ON.   Near-OFF, the percent is higher.   
      
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