In article , Don Foreman says...

When the converter is operating of course there is one special lead
that breaks the symmetry - it's missing the line connection. An
electrican would say that the absence of that line connection does
not change the fact the two sets of windings are in parallel. A
EE looks at the entire network as a system, including the incoming
power. He says parallel means all nodes have the same number of
connections.

He does? In circuit analysis, a set of two-terminal networks are
regarded as "in parallel" if they are each connected to the same pair
of nodes so the voltage across them is identically the same.

WEll yes. I didn't say it was a conventional definition. I think
electricians (and a good many other folks) will give a resounding
huh? when exposed to it. But it's *internally* consistent.

Jim


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