Re: Charging Choke

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Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>

Nope.. no reason... It might be a holdover from when people were connecting
a power supply with a choke filter?

Series components can be hooked up in any order...

You DO raise an interesting question though... Why does everyone draw it
that way (probably because they are copying from somewhere else...)

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Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 9:53 AM
Subject: Charging Choke


> Original poster: "LWRobertson by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<LWRobertson-at-email.msn-dot-com>
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> In almost every schematic I've seen using a charging
> choke and diode, the choke is placed before the diode.
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> This leaves the diode looking straight into a spark gap,
> usually. One would intuitivly think placing the diode
> behind the choke would protect the diode from transient
> spark gap behavior, but this must  be untrue or everyone
> from from Sandia to Livermore would do it that way.
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> IS there a good reason to put the diode after the choke?
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