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Every once in a while, I need a 12 v. DC power source to trouble shoot
something. I have been using a battery charger, 12 v. around 6 amp. Is that okay, or is there a dedicated power source for this purpose? Maybe one of those power rescue jumper battery pack thinguses? Kinda spendy, but sure I could score one at a yard sale. How do they last? Very rechargeable? Something with variable connectors for the times when you need a clamp, or just a probe to put the juice at the right place. Steve |
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On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:20:09 -0700, "Steve B"
wrote: Every once in a while, I need a 12 v. DC power source to trouble shoot something. I have been using a battery charger, 12 v. around 6 amp. Is that okay, or is there a dedicated power source for this purpose? Maybe one of those power rescue jumper battery pack thinguses? Kinda spendy, but sure I could score one at a yard sale. How do they last? Very rechargeable? Something with variable connectors for the times when you need a clamp, or just a probe to put the juice at the right place. Steve I have a 30 amp-hr or so agm battery in a small Pelican Storm case with a cigarette lighter receptacle mounted in the side of the case. Stiff foam is jammed around the battery. It makes a compact and portable (if heavy) power source for the goto telescope, for fishing lights, and for the gps-sonar on the little jon boat. I charge it with a little Deltran 800 mA waterproof battery tender. You could go with a 7 amp-hr or so for a lighter weight setup. Pete Keillor |
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On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:20:09 -0700, "Steve B"
wrote: Every once in a while, I need a 12 v. DC power source to trouble shoot something. I have been using a battery charger, 12 v. around 6 amp. Is that okay, or is there a dedicated power source for this purpose? Maybe one of those power rescue jumper battery pack thinguses? Kinda spendy, but sure I could score one at a yard sale. How do they last? Very rechargeable? Something with variable connectors for the times when you need a clamp, or just a probe to put the juice at the right place. Steve Why not use an old computer power supply? They have decent clean power and are a couple bucks at the swap meet if you dont have old computers around. http://www.playtool.com/pages/psucon...onnectors.html Lots of old AT style power spplies kicking around. Remember..its Yellow (+`12) and any black Gunner One bleeding-heart type asked me in a recent interview if I did not agree that "violence begets violence." I told him that it is my earnest endeavor to see that it does. I would like very much to ensure - and in some cases I have - that any man who offers violence to his fellow citizen begets a whole lot more in return than he can enjoy. - Jeff Cooper |
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Pete Keillor wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:20:09 -0700, "Steve B" wrote: Every once in a while, I need a 12 v. DC power source to trouble shoot something. I have been using a battery charger, 12 v. around 6 amp. Is that okay, or is there a dedicated power source for this purpose? Maybe one of those power rescue jumper battery pack thinguses? Kinda spendy, but sure I could score one at a yard sale. How do they last? Very rechargeable? Something with variable connectors for the times when you need a clamp, or just a probe to put the juice at the right place. Steve I have a 30 amp-hr or so agm battery in a small Pelican Storm case with a cigarette lighter receptacle mounted in the side of the case. Stiff foam is jammed around the battery. It makes a compact and portable (if heavy) power source for the goto telescope, for fishing lights, and for the gps-sonar on the little jon boat. I charge it with a little Deltran 800 mA waterproof battery tender. You could go with a 7 amp-hr or so for a lighter weight setup. Pete Keillor Run a Google search on '12V Power supply' (sans quotes), you'll get a ton of hits. Even Radio Shack used to carry them, and might still for all I know. Erik |
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... Every once in a while, I need a 12 v. DC power source to trouble shoot something. I have been using a battery charger, 12 v. around 6 amp. Is that okay, or is there a dedicated power source for this purpose? Maybe one of those power rescue jumper battery pack thinguses? Kinda spendy, but sure I could score one at a yard sale. How do they last? Very rechargeable? Something with variable connectors for the times when you need a clamp, or just a probe to put the juice at the right place. Battery chargers are usually charging at about 14 V, iirc. And proly have considerable ripple. How bout an ole car/motorcycle battery, kept on a trickle charger when not using it as a power supply? -- EA Steve |
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... In article , Pete Keillor wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:20:09 -0700, "Steve B" wrote: Every once in a while, I need a 12 v. DC power source to trouble shoot something. I have been using a battery charger, 12 v. around 6 amp. Is that okay, or is there a dedicated power source for this purpose? Maybe one of those power rescue jumper battery pack thinguses? Kinda spendy, but sure I could score one at a yard sale. How do they last? Very rechargeable? Something with variable connectors for the times when you need a clamp, or just a probe to put the juice at the right place. Steve I have a 30 amp-hr or so agm battery in a small Pelican Storm case with a cigarette lighter receptacle mounted in the side of the case. Stiff foam is jammed around the battery. It makes a compact and portable (if heavy) power source for the goto telescope, for fishing lights, and for the gps-sonar on the little jon boat. I charge it with a little Deltran 800 mA waterproof battery tender. You could go with a 7 amp-hr or so for a lighter weight setup. Pete Keillor Run a Google search on '12V Power supply' (sans quotes), you'll get a ton of hits. Even Radio Shack used to carry them, and might still for all I know. Could also use a variac+ fw rectifer+caps -- 0-120V dc. -- EA Erik |
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On 2012-08-15, Steve B wrote:
Every once in a while, I need a 12 v. DC power source to trouble shoot something. I have been using a battery charger, 12 v. around 6 amp. Hmm ... most battery chargers don't have any filtering -- they just feed rectified AC to the battery to charge it. Fine, for a battery. Terrible to power electronics circuits -- unless you add some serious capacitors across the 12V out of the charger. How much capacitance you need is a function of what kind of current load you have. I would pick say 10,000 uF for a typical load on a battery charger -- and perhaps up to say 80,000 uF for higher loads. Of course -- if you have a *good* battery connected across the charger, that will do just as well as a capacitor -- and actually be closer to what automotive electronics are expecting anyway. Is that okay, or is there a dedicated power source for this purpose? Maybe one of those power rescue jumper battery pack thinguses? For a short time only with the likely load from the brakes. While they are heavy, they are a tiny subset of what the car's battery normally provides. Mine suggests that you wait six minutes after a failed start attempt -- to keep the battery from overheating -- before the next try. Kinda spendy, but sure I could score one at a yard sale. How do they last? Very rechargeable? Depends on the quality of the things. The one I have has a regulated trickler charger built in -- running from a wall wart -- and it is designed to be connected full time so the battery is at optimum charge when you need it. (Mine even has a cigarette lighter socket in it, which I expect to use to recharge my cell phone and my Nook e-reader until power comes back. It was gone four days (minus a few hours) earlier this year -- the longest which we have had, though other areas have had longer outages. (And this is in various areas outside the Beltway -- you would expect them to have better power around the center of the government. :-) Something with variable connectors for the times when you need a clamp, or just a probe to put the juice at the right place. Well ... as I said, my jump start box has both the battery cables and the cigarette lighter socket. Anything else and you need to make your own adaptors. :-) Enjoy, DoN. -- Remove oil spill source from e-mail Email: | Voice (all times): (703) 938-4564 (too) near Washington D.C. | http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero --- |
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Gunner Gunner Asch writes:
Lots of old AT style power spplies kicking around. Remember..its Yellow (+`12) and any black I can't recommend that. PC supplies are highly optimized for one task - being as cheap as possible. Most of them will not function without minimum loads on one or more of their outputs. (They regulate all the outputs based on one output voltage.) That said, it won't cost you much to try one. -- A host is a host from coast to & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433 |
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"Erik" wrote in message ... In article , Pete Keillor wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:20:09 -0700, "Steve B" wrote: Every once in a while, I need a 12 v. DC power source to trouble shoot something. I have been using a battery charger, 12 v. around 6 amp. Is that okay, or is there a dedicated power source for this purpose? Maybe one of those power rescue jumper battery pack thinguses? Kinda spendy, but sure I could score one at a yard sale. How do they last? Very rechargeable? Something with variable connectors for the times when you need a clamp, or just a probe to put the juice at the right place. Steve I have a 30 amp-hr or so agm battery in a small Pelican Storm case with a cigarette lighter receptacle mounted in the side of the case. Stiff foam is jammed around the battery. It makes a compact and portable (if heavy) power source for the goto telescope, for fishing lights, and for the gps-sonar on the little jon boat. I charge it with a little Deltran 800 mA waterproof battery tender. You could go with a 7 amp-hr or so for a lighter weight setup. Pete Keillor Run a Google search on '12V Power supply' (sans quotes), you'll get a ton of hits. He is too lazy and stupid to use Google and so he just comes here instead... I'm surprised he can even take a **** without consulting the group...then again , he's so full of it I coulda missed... |
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"Existential Angst" fired this volley in
: Battery chargers are usually charging at about 14 V, iirc. And proly have considerable ripple. No! Really? Do you mean by that that they have NO filtering, and only supply un- regulated full-wave rectified power? Do you mean by that that they might regulate so poorly as to put out 18- 20 V to a small load? Do you mean that the "ripple" might be "all there is", and there is no continuous DC being supplied? Do you mean that typical lead-acid battery chargers are completely unsuitable as power supplies for electronics? If that's what you meant... you're right! Lloyd |
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... Every once in a while, I need a 12 v. DC power source to trouble shoot something. I have been using a battery charger, 12 v. around 6 amp. Is that okay, or is there a dedicated power source for this purpose? Maybe one of those power rescue jumper battery pack thinguses? Kinda spendy, but sure I could score one at a yard sale. How do they last? Very rechargeable? Something with variable connectors for the times when you need a clamp, or just a probe to put the juice at the right place. Steve I use these lab supplies: http://www.caswellplating.com/electr...rectifier.html http://www.microdaq.com/lascar/psu130.php and an old Schauer battery charger to which I added a 3A Variac to set the voltage and a 24,000uF filter cap. The original 6V/12V switch puts the cap in the circuit when I need 12VDC and removes it for battery charging, to avoid a spark and maybe blown fuse when I connect. You could make an equivalent to the Lascar from an LM317 adjustable regulator, but might not save much if you buy the meters etc new. |
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On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:20:09 -0700, "Steve B"
wrote: Every once in a while, I need a 12 v. DC power source to trouble shoot something. I have been using a battery charger, 12 v. around 6 amp. Is that okay, or is there a dedicated power source for this purpose? Maybe one of those power rescue jumper battery pack thinguses? Kinda spendy, but sure I could score one at a yard sale. How do they last? Very rechargeable? Something with variable connectors for the times when you need a clamp, or just a probe to put the juice at the right place. Steve As others have said, it's only marginally more suitable than cutting off a power cord and plugging it directly into the wall. Don't you have a left-over 12VDC regulated wall-wart or brick you could use? Wall wart up to 2 or 3A and 6A should be available easily in a brick. Chinois ones are quite available, but of dubious pedigree and safety-agency-approval status. Just don't use the ones that say "electronic transformer" or are advertised for LED power supplies. |
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On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:27:23 -0400, Spehro Pefhany
wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:20:09 -0700, "Steve B" wrote: Every once in a while, I need a 12 v. DC power source to trouble shoot something. I have been using a battery charger, 12 v. around 6 amp. Is that okay, or is there a dedicated power source for this purpose? Maybe one of those power rescue jumper battery pack thinguses? Kinda spendy, but sure I could score one at a yard sale. How do they last? Very rechargeable? Something with variable connectors for the times when you need a clamp, or just a probe to put the juice at the right place. Steve As others have said, it's only marginally more suitable than cutting off a power cord and plugging it directly into the wall. Don't you have a left-over 12VDC regulated wall-wart or brick you could use? Wall wart up to 2 or 3A and 6A should be available easily in a brick. Chinois ones are quite available, but of dubious pedigree and safety-agency-approval status. Just don't use the ones that say "electronic transformer" or are advertised for LED power supplies. My local thrift store has a shoe box filled with miscellaneous wallwart power supply's. Big uns, little uns, your choice, $ !.00 each. |
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... On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:27:23 -0400, Spehro Pefhany wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:20:09 -0700, "Steve B" wrote: Every once in a while, I need a 12 v. DC power source to trouble shoot something. I have been using a battery charger, 12 v. around 6 amp. Is that okay, or is there a dedicated power source for this purpose? Maybe one of those power rescue jumper battery pack thinguses? Kinda spendy, but sure I could score one at a yard sale. How do they last? Very rechargeable? Something with variable connectors for the times when you need a clamp, or just a probe to put the juice at the right place. Steve As others have said, it's only marginally more suitable than cutting off a power cord and plugging it directly into the wall. Don't you have a left-over 12VDC regulated wall-wart or brick you could use? Wall wart up to 2 or 3A and 6A should be available easily in a brick. Chinois ones are quite available, but of dubious pedigree and safety-agency-approval status. Just don't use the ones that say "electronic transformer" or are advertised for LED power supplies. My local thrift store has a shoe box filled with miscellaneous wallwart power supply's. Big uns, little uns, your choice, $ !.00 each. I must have a milkcrate full.... it's like an addiction. Some of the older ones are pretty hefty, as well. You'd have to TAPE them to a wall outlet... LOL -- EA |
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Steve B wrote:
Every once in a while, I need a 12 v. DC power source to trouble shoot something. I have been using a battery charger, 12 v. around 6 amp. Is that okay, or is there a dedicated power source for this purpose? Maybe one of those power rescue jumper battery pack thinguses? Kinda spendy, but sure I could score one at a yard sale. How do they last? Very rechargeable? Something with variable connectors for the times when you need a clamp, or just a probe to put the juice at the right place. Steve How many amps would you like? I have units from small 1 amp up to the 50 amp on the bench. Both adjustable and fixed output. You can buy them online easily. B&K, Astron, Pyramid, Tripp Lite, http://www.astroncorp.com/ http://www.pyramidcaraudio.com/products/Power-Supplies http://www.tripplite.com/en/products...xtSeriesID=841 -- Steve W. |
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On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:20:09 -0700, "Steve B"
wrote: Every once in a while, I need a 12 v. DC power source to trouble shoot something. I have been using a battery charger, 12 v. around 6 amp. Is that okay, or is there a dedicated power source for this purpose? Maybe one of those power rescue jumper battery pack thinguses? Kinda spendy, but sure I could score one at a yard sale. How do they last? Very rechargeable? Something with variable connectors for the times when you need a clamp, or just a probe to put the juice at the right place. Steve MOST battery chargers (good ones, anyway) will not put out power into a "dead" circuit. How much power do you want??? I've used PC power supplies for years. I also usually have several AGM batteries around in various states of charge. The chargers also have very poor regulation if voltage control is an issue. |
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On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 07:00:54 +0000 (UTC), David Lesher
wrote: Gunner Gunner Asch writes: Lots of old AT style power spplies kicking around. Remember..its Yellow (+`12) and any black I can't recommend that. PC supplies are highly optimized for one task - being as cheap as possible. Most of them will not function without minimum loads on one or more of their outputs. (They regulate all the outputs based on one output voltage.) That said, it won't cost you much to try one. Only the +12 needs a load - and that's the one he'll be loading. I've used them for years.Clean, accurately regulated power - and I'm always scrapping computers, so there are always several around. I used to just plug an old hard drive on one Molex plug if I wanted to use the 5 volt output, or needed 12 volts for a low current application. |
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On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:05:26 -0400, "Existential Angst"
wrote: wrote in message .. . On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:27:23 -0400, Spehro Pefhany wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:20:09 -0700, "Steve B" wrote: Every once in a while, I need a 12 v. DC power source to trouble shoot something. I have been using a battery charger, 12 v. around 6 amp. Is that okay, or is there a dedicated power source for this purpose? Maybe one of those power rescue jumper battery pack thinguses? Kinda spendy, but sure I could score one at a yard sale. How do they last? Very rechargeable? Something with variable connectors for the times when you need a clamp, or just a probe to put the juice at the right place. Steve As others have said, it's only marginally more suitable than cutting off a power cord and plugging it directly into the wall. Don't you have a left-over 12VDC regulated wall-wart or brick you could use? Wall wart up to 2 or 3A and 6A should be available easily in a brick. Chinois ones are quite available, but of dubious pedigree and safety-agency-approval status. Just don't use the ones that say "electronic transformer" or are advertised for LED power supplies. My local thrift store has a shoe box filled with miscellaneous wallwart power supply's. Big uns, little uns, your choice, $ !.00 each. I must have a milkcrate full.... it's like an addiction. Some of the older ones are pretty hefty, as well. You'd have to TAPE them to a wall outlet... LOL 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. |
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On 2012-08-15, Existential Angst wrote:
[ ... ] On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:20:09 -0700, "Steve B" wrote: Every once in a while, I need a 12 v. DC power source to trouble shoot something. I have been using a battery charger, 12 v. around 6 amp. [ ... ] Could also use a variac+ fw rectifer+caps -- 0-120V dc. Beware of this -- it does not float free of ground, and depending on the wiring of the power cord, might have the whole circuit running about 120 VAC above ground. Having a transformer in there to isolate things is beneficial. (Granted, you might not recognize a high frequency transformer in a switching power supply -- they look kind of strange compared to the 60 Hz power transformers. Enjoy, DoN. -- Remove oil spill source from e-mail Email: | Voice (all times): (703) 938-4564 (too) near Washington D.C. | http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero --- |
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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? Run it through a bridge rectifier only. The methodology of the left has always been: 1. Lie 2. Repeat the lie as many times as possible 3. Have as many people repeat the lie as often as possible 4. Eventually, the uninformed believe the lie 5. The lie will then be made into some form oflaw 6. Then everyone must conform to the lie |
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Gunner wrote: 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? Run it through a bridge rectifier only. That has nothing to do with regulation. |
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"Michael A. Terrell" fired this volley in
m: That has nothing to do with regulation. And if it's being "run through a bridge", it doesn't have much to do with "half-wave", either. Lloyd |
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On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 04:47:18 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote: Gunner wrote: 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? Run it through a bridge rectifier only. That has nothing to do with regulation. blink blink....ROFLMAO! You are most absolutely correct. That one caught me flat footed indeed. "half wave rectified" Very nice catch!! Gunner -- Adde cruorem stultitiae, atque ignem gladio scruta To your folly add bloodshed, and stir the fire with the sword (Horace) |
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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. -- 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 |
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On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 04:18:54 -0700, Gunner
wrote: On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 04:47:18 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell" wrote: Gunner wrote: 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? Run it through a bridge rectifier only. That has nothing to do with regulation. blink blink....ROFLMAO! You are most absolutely correct. That one caught me flat footed indeed. Oops, me, too. "half wave rectified" Very nice catch!! Bbbut, it started with an R... -- You never hear anyone say, 'Yeah, but it's a dry cold.' -- Charles A. Budreau |
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Only regulate the negative side, maybe?
(ha, ha!) Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus www.lds.org .. "Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message ... 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? |
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I've got strains of "bridge over troubled watters"
floating through my unregulated head. Good thing I'm ohm, now. Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus www.lds.org .. "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote in message . 3.70... And if it's being "run through a bridge", it doesn't have much to do with "half-wave", either. Lloyd |
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On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 06:03:06 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote: On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 04:18:54 -0700, Gunner wrote: On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 04:47:18 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell" wrote: Gunner wrote: 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? Run it through a bridge rectifier only. That has nothing to do with regulation. blink blink....ROFLMAO! You are most absolutely correct. That one caught me flat footed indeed. Oops, me, too. "half wave rectified" Very nice catch!! Bbbut, it started with an R... Indeed it did! Ever see one of those thingies where they ask if you can read this and half the letters are missing and some are turned around backwards? Takes my brain a second or two to shift gears and then I read right through it http://danalookadoo.com/psychology/jumbled-text/ as an example. Funny how the mind corrects flaws in words or the wrong words sometimes. As I get older..its easier...but sometimes it certainly bites me in the ass..as the regulator thingy did. Saw half wave and the following Re....and the brain changed it to rectifier subconciously My room mate just looked at the above link...and is still sitting there trying to figure out what it says, even after I just read it out loud to her. Gunner -- Adde cruorem stultitiae, atque ignem gladio scruta To your folly add bloodshed, and stir the fire with the sword (Horace) |
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... ... Ever see one of those thingies where they ask if you can read this and half the letters are missing and some are turned around backwards? Takes my brain a second or two to shift gears and then I read right through it http://danalookadoo.com/psychology/jumbled-text/ as an example. Funny how the mind corrects flaws in words or the wrong words sometimes. As I get older..its easier...but sometimes it certainly bites me in the ass..as the regulator thingy did. Saw half wave and the following Re....and the brain changed it to rectifier subconciously My room mate just looked at the above link...and is still sitting there trying to figure out what it says, even after I just read it out loud to her. Gunner If you speak French here's another. http://www.amazon.com/Mots-dHeures-L.../dp/0140057307 The title is "Mother Goose Rhymes" pronounced in a thick French accent. When you study languages you realize when groups of letters finally become words. I'm part way there with Russian; some words pop out but I have to read most letter by letter. The communications theory I encountered at Mitre explores the pattern recognition process in considerable mathematical detail: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matched_filter As I understood it, you compare the jumbled word to possible choices that might make sense in context and pick the closest match. But first you have to synchronize yourself with something you recognize. I began with 'can'. http://www.usna.edu/Users/math/wdj/reed-sol.htm "Minimum distance, or d, is the minimum number of information differences between each codeword." An English example of inadequate distance is Affect vs Effect, affect meaning to cause, effect being a result. jsw |
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On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 04:47:18 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote: Gunner wrote: 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? Run it through a bridge rectifier only. That has nothing to do with regulation. And a Bridge rectifier is GENERALLY referred to as a full wave" rectifier. |
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Stormin Mormon wrote: I've got strains of "bridge over troubled watters" floating through my unregulated head. Good thing I'm ohm, now. Ohm, Ohm on the range. Where the Volts & Amps play... |
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Larry Jaques wrote: 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. You still don't see it. |
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Stormin Mormon wrote: Only regulate the negative side, maybe? (ha, ha!) D- |
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Stormin Mormon wrote:
Only regulate the negative side, maybe? (ha, ha!) FWIW, some of the projects I work on even have ground plane "regulation" issues. (not that it's called regulation, or anything like that...) LLoyd |
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On 2012-10-06, Gunner wrote:
On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 06:03:06 -0700, Larry Jaques wrote: On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 04:18:54 -0700, Gunner wrote: On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 04:47:18 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell" wrote: Gunner wrote: 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? I almost posted a long reply (also reading it as "rectify"), until I noticed who had posted the question, and then I went back and read it more carefully and spotted what was really asked, so I blew away the reply and went on to see what else was said. [ ... ] "half wave rectified" Very nice catch!! Bbbut, it started with an R... Indeed it did! Ever see one of those thingies where they ask if you can read this and half the letters are missing and some are turned around backwards? Takes my brain a second or two to shift gears and then I read right through it http://danalookadoo.com/psychology/jumbled-text/ as an example. Funny how the mind corrects flaws in words or the wrong words sometimes. As I get older..its easier...but sometimes it certainly bites me in the ass..as the regulator thingy did. Saw half wave and the following Re....and the brain changed it to rectifier subconciously The main trick with the above web site is to *not* look at it closely. :-) My room mate just looked at the above link...and is still sitting there trying to figure out what it says, even after I just read it out loud to her. Interesting. I wonder what will happen when I show it to my wife? Enjoy, DoN. -- Remove oil spill source from e-mail Email: | Voice (all times): (703) 938-4564 (too) near Washington D.C. | http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero --- |
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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? Tell a lefty that it has to do with guns so a mere half-wave at the populace will start a movement to regulate it. |
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Don Foreman wrote: 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? Tell a lefty that it has to do with guns so a mere half-wave at the populace will start a movement to regulate it. They won't hear _anything_ after the word GUN! ;-) |
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On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 08:51:28 -0700, Gunner
wrote: On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 06:03:06 -0700, Larry Jaques wrote: --much snippage-- Bbbut, it started with an R... Indeed it did! Ever see one of those thingies where they ask if you can read this and half the letters are missing and some are turned around backwards? Takes my brain a second or two to shift gears and then I read right through it http://danalookadoo.com/psychology/jumbled-text/ as an example. Funny how the mind corrects flaws in words or the wrong words sometimes. As I get older..its easier...but sometimes it certainly bites me in the ass..as the regulator thingy did. Saw half wave and the following Re....and the brain changed it to rectifier subconciously I love those, and I'm amazed at how funky they can get before we stop being able to grok 'em. My room mate just looked at the above link...and is still sitting there trying to figure out what it says, even after I just read it out loud to her. If it has tits or tires, you're gonna have trouble with it. My latest book from the library is The Book of Codes: Understanding the World of Hidden Messages. You'd like it and roomie'd like the nice pictures. Anyway, it's an interesting read and is very evocative of thought. It might stir something inside your mind which would help you sort out some of your jumble since the stroke. P.S: Are you going to write-in Ron Paul with me? Rummy and Obummer just ain't got it. Otherwise, allowing Obummer to hasten TGC isn't a bad idea, either. Hmm, Paul might be the easier pill to swallow and send fewer countries to their demise (including ours!) -- You never hear anyone say, 'Yeah, but it's a dry cold.' -- Charles A. Budreau |
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On 2012-10-06, Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Stormin Mormon wrote: I've got strains of "bridge over troubled watters" floating through my unregulated head. Good thing I'm ohm, now. Ohm, Ohm on the range. Where the Volts & Amps play... Should that bridge be a "Wheatstone bridge"? :-) And for some reason, I feel that that should be "Milliamps play", perhaps it scans better with the original song? Enjoy, DoN. -- Remove oil spill source from e-mail Email: | Voice (all times): (703) 938-4564 (too) near Washington D.C. | http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero --- |
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