Re: Idea for Powering up coil

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Original poster: "davep by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <davep-at-quik-dot-com>

Tesla list wrote:

> > Whoops!  DON'T DO THAT!! You'll be passing DC through the primary and
> > will probably let all of the smoke out of the transformer unless the
> > diode opens first.

> A diode produces pulsating DC, The inductive reactance rounds off the
> clipped half and produces a pseudo AC wave

	true.

> not DC

	Which has a substantial DC component.  It WILL Overheat the
	transformer, unless it blows the diodes.

> and 1/2 the power factor of the AC sign wave.

	More or less.

	best
	dwp