on 10/16/01 8:37 AM, Ode Coyote at [email protected] wrote: > The stated line voltage is an RMS value. [root means squared] > For instance, some AC to AC adapters at 24 volts will give over 100 volts > of peak to peak voltage. > The small one I use puts out 81 volts peak to peak [measured on > occiloscope] but only 33 volts RMS AC..as measured by a meter. > Ken > > At 03:26 PM 10/15/01 -0400, you 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]> >> >> > > Does anyone know if cs has any affect on Lou Gehrig's disease?
Mary Lou
