It isn't increased. 110 V RMS sine wave when either half or full wave will have a peak of 1.414 * 110 = 155.54 volts minus about a volt for the drop across the rectifier giving about 154.5 volts.
Marshall Terry Chamberlin wrote: > "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]>
