On 07/07/2013 15:32, wrote:
I mean they're clearly two different disciples entirely. In my
typically millivolt/milliamp world, we don't have to contend with
forces sufficient to rip a machine's internals to pieces as you do
with power engineering, so the need for nice, smooth 3 phase supplies
simply doesn't arise in the first place!

I found doing a bit of software development work on high power HF
amplifiers / transmitters was quite enlightening in that respect... It
certainly changes ones TTL/5V view of the world, when dealing with 10kV
step up transformers!



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Cheers,

John.

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