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- From: frank@rover.uchicago.edu (Frank - Hardware Hacker - Borger)
- Subject: Re: Weird Science?
- Message-ID: <31AUG199216594917@rover.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Joint Center for Radiation Therapy
- References: <17u3gbINNfuv@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 22:59:00 GMT
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- In article <17u3gbINNfuv@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes) writes...
- >
- >I've got this circuit which consists of
- > 8:1000 ohm input transformer feeding
- > DIP bridge rectifier feeding
- > base-emitter junction of a transistor.
- >The idea is to connect the 8-ohm input to the output of a radio or
- >tape recorder and turn on the transistor when there is some signal.
- >
- >It works fine, at first. After it sits for a while, turned off, it
- >won't work. Then I disconnect one of the secondary leads from the
- >transformer, observe with an AC voltmeter that there is voltage there,
-
- Ah yes, but there is also probably DC voltage there.
-
- When you put ac on top of dc into a transformer, the resultant
- E-H curve keeps jacking up the magnetic field until it saturates.
-
- Try putting a large cap in series with the transformer primary to
- block the dc component.
-
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