Voltage regulator

[Greg Hermann]

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

As far as I am concerned, the smoother the better!

Greg
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