Hello Terry, Thursday, October 18, 2001, 5:26:50 PM, you wrote:
TC> Jim Meissner said: TC> "That was my question to you! Does the pulsing TC> provide some value? My guess would be that if you add TC> a capacitor it will raise the voltage and probably TC> reduce the brewing time?" TC> Terry responds: TC> I contacted the shop where I got my rectifier, he TC> asked some questions about the particulars of my TC> rectifier, and told me it was a full-wave rectifier, TC> but he was mystified how it could give me 100VDC. I TC> hooked it up to my voltmeter (which reads it as 120VAC TC> before the rectifier) and it still reads 100VDC all by TC> itself. TC> Mystifying, eh? Not mystifying at all, Terry. If it reads 120 Volts AC before the rectifier, you have... 120*1.414=169.68 or 170 volts. This is the peak-to-peak voltage. The reason your meter reads it as 100 volts is because it is DC that is pulsed at 120 Hertz. Place a suitable capacitor across the DC output, and your meter will then read the DC voltage. Or, hook it up to an oscilliscope. -- Best regards, Solar mailto:[email protected] -- 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]>
