On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Gary Schafer wrote:
You had best have something to protect that microameter when you turn on the
supply as the capacitance of the transformer windings will look like a short
to the meter until the charge equalizes.
Running it up with a variac would be ok.
Yeah - and the inductive kick too - I forgot about that.
Maybe a 50 or 100K resistor in the circuit to snub all that inrush-type
stuff...?
Cheers
John
KB6SCO
DM09fg
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