<ad.82daed6.27e25...@aol.com>, peterh...@aol.com inimitably wrote: >I have been told by a customer that there are PFC filter available >commercially >off the shelf just like the EMI filter that I can buy and put it in front of >my >power supply and the PFC filter will cure most of the harmonic problems. Is >this >ture? If so can anyone let me have some manufacturer name or web address for >these filters please?
It is substantially not true, in that no such device will, for example, eliminate even the low-order harmonic currents of an SMPS. If you had something that produced only, or mainly, one specific harmonic, then a filter would be practicable. -- Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only. Phone +44 (0)1268 747839 Fax +44 (0)1268 777124. http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Foxhunters suffer from tallyhosis. PLEASE do not mail copies of newsgroup posts to me. ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org Dave Heald davehe...@mediaone.net For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.rcic.com/ click on "Virtual Conference Hall,"
