Voltage regulator

Tom Parker tparker at nznet.gen.nz
Sun Jan 3 12:33:31 GMT 1999


Greg Hermann <bearbvd at sni.net> wrote:

>>At 01:55 PM 1/2/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>Hence, the proper answer of PWM.
>>
>>Exactly!
>>The pump still sees full voltage, it just has it for a limited time!

>C'mon--the PWM switch LOWERS the AVERAGE voltage by switching teh FULL
>voltage on and off rapidly. As I said, you want good smoothing of the
>output, cuz the rapid pulsing IS what will dissassemble the windings!

Won't the smoothing system turn it into a lower constant voltage? If you have
enough capacatance across it, it will just average out the pulses.

Or do you mean not this much smoothing, but enough to take the sharp edges of
the transitions between on and off?


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