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Wax Actuator watts?
On 06/06/2019 15:12, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
on 05/06/2019,
supposed :
All Brian's points are incorrect except that they do often get stiff
due to limescale or corrosion.
A diode will give 240v x 0.707 rms volts, which is more than 120.
No, it will be 50% of the AC waveform, less a bit for the fraction of a
volt lost across the junction.
0.707 x the peak AC is the RMS voltage.
Of a sinewave, not a half-wave rectified sine wave.
Sinewave: 339V / sqrt(2) = 240V RMS
Half-wave rectified sinewave: 339V / 2 = 169.5V RMS
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