On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 02:58:11 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:


wrote:

And MANY of them are also totally unregulated and unfiltered. I've
measured in excess of 18 volts open circuit, with over 4 volts AC
ripple. Some are even only HALF WAVE regulated.


How do you 'half wave regulate' something?

With a diode. Googlit.

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Doctors prescribe medicine of which they know little,
to cure diseases of which they know less,
in human beings of which they know nothing.
--Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire, about 250 years ago