RE: Higher Mains Frequency

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Original poster: "Black Moon by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <black_moons-at-hotmail-dot-com>

Well, you don't need inverters for one.
2nd, your 60hz transformers will probley still work on it, and all smps 
would, mabey with poor power factor but a simple modification could help 
fix that.
3rd, less idle current for transformers, smaller transformers for the same 
power.




> >The concept indeed looks interesting, but why change an already perfectly
> >working system!!!  60Hz is more than readily available - why add the
> >complexities of a multi-kilowatt inverter system.
>
>Because it's fun darnit! And educational too. People probably said the same
>about the SSTC when it was first invented.
>
>Anyway, personally I have two thoughts on this.
>
>1) By driving a transformer at a higher frequency you can get more voltage
>before it saturates. Ferinstance an MOT at 400Hz could give 12kV and (more
>importantly) one of those little 12v:240V transformers would give 1600V.
>Also they have chambered plastic bobbins that give good primary/secondary
>isolation.
>
>One could imagine an 'MMT' made of about a dozen of these little
>transformers in series, maybe in oil, with the 12V primaries all in parallel
>driven off a half-bridge inverter that runs off the rectified 120V line. An
>HVDC supply would be equally easy to make by just putting a small bridge
>rectifier and cap on each transformer and stacking them in series.
>
>2) You can get 115V 400Hz three-phase generators cheap from military
>surplus. They come in ridiculous powers all the way up to 60kW gas turbine
>powered units. Imagine a 12-MOT bank running off one of those.
>
>Steve C.
>