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Re: rectifier stack experts?



Original poster: "Daniel Barrett by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dbarrett1-at-austin.rr-dot-com>

    Maybe shunt each diode with a 10M resistor and a 100pF disc cap? That
should balance both DC and ac transients across the whole string.
db


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Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: rectifier stack experts?


> Original poster: "Crow Leader by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<tesla-at-lists.symmetric-dot-net>
>
> I've noticed mega rectifier assemblies are compensated. This makes sense
as
> switching transients easily diodes, and in a string, when one shorts out
for
> good, the stresses just go up on the rest of them. Then eventually they
all
> break down and get destroyed. I'm assuming the use of MOVs absorbs any