Re: Idea for Powering up coil

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Original poster: "R Heidlebaugh by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <rheidlebaugh-at-zialink-dot-com>

on 11/13/01 12:36 PM, Tesla list at tesla-at-pupman-dot-com wrote:

> Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>
> 
>> Pat; A simple diode in series with your primary will cut your voltage in
>> half.
>> Robert   H
> 
> Whoops!  DON'T DO THAT!! You'll be passing DC through the primary and
> will probably let all of the smoke out of the transformer unless the
> diode opens first.
> 
> Ed
> 
> Ed
> 
> 
> 
A diode produces pulsating DC, The inductive reactance rounds off the
clipped half and produces a psudo AC wave not DC and 1/2 the power factor of
the AC sign wave.
   Robert   H