On Thursday 07 August 2014 10:11:48 Gene Heskett did opine And Gene did reply: > On Thursday 07 August 2014 07:26:58 David Armstrong did opine > > And Gene did reply: > > yea , a simple transformer and rectifier and cap block is all you > > need , never mind all these fancy switched mode stuff > > Which is what that 28 volter is. But the simple choke input works very > well too. > > But after writing that much earlier this am, I spent an hour snooping > thru ebay, and was only able to find one 48 volt candidate, for a bit > north of 100 USD, on the other side of the pond. Power transformers > even at 36v ct. were non-existent. For a choke input, something in > the 45 to 48v would be needed. Choke input filtering gives you > nominally the RMS output in DC. South of 300 USD they don't exist. > I've got a Hammond, Canadian made toroid here but from the size of the > primary wire, I doubt it has the muscle to do it. The only label is > under the translucent wrapper tape and very hard to read. I'll go see > if Hammond still lists something that resembles this. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
A PS: I found a usable toroid at altronics, 117V primary, 2 ea 10V at 10A, and 2 each 12V at 10A. Series'd thats 44 volts RMS, Suitable choke is next. Probably a bit over $55 with shipping from Santa Clara as its about 10lbs. With a choke input and a FW bridge, should give around 45 volts DC. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Infragistics Professional Build stunning WinForms apps today! Reboot your WinForms applications with our WinForms controls. Build a bridge from your legacy apps to the future. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=153845071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
