Re: Three phase rectifiers

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Original poster: "Greg Leyh by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <lod-at-pacbell-dot-net>

This brings to mind an interesting bit of trivia regarding 
DC resonant chargers -- Under normal operation, what is the
peak energy stored in the charging reactor, compared to the 
peak energy stored in the primary capacitor?
-- 

-GL
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Original poster: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>

> Another way to approach it is to consider the stored energy in the
> inductor.. (1/2 L I^2)

> > Would you please explain how to determine a proper sized charging choke
> > in a system, where transformer voltage and capacitor size is already
> > given, so that it results in the desired doubling of the voltage across
> > the cap/vs the input voltage, while keeping the current from the
> > transformer to the gap during ringdown low enough  to allow quenching of
> > the gap without making a rapid recharge of the cap impossible.