"Half wave rectifiying 110 volts AC will give you about 154 volts peak DC. With 220 volts you will get about 308 volts peak DC."
Hold on a minute here, I am not an electrical technician, but my understanding of the juice goes like this. A sine wave AC electrical current has 2 halves, the top half, which looks like the top half of a circle, and the bottom half of the circle, like an S on it's it's side, with a line horizontally through the middle. A half-wave rectifier, as I understand it, keeps the electricity from reversing the direction of the flow, cutting off the bottom half cirlce, and making, functionally, a pulsating DC current, which, for brewing CS, appears to make a good CS (for me it does). I am at a loss to understand how then a particular voltage would be increased by a rectifier. Comments, anyone? Terry Chamberlin _______________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
