Re: calculating ripple

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Original poster: "S & J Young by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <youngs-at-konnections-dot-net>

Ken,

The reality of DC supplies is that the 20 KV DC is true only for no load.
As you start drawing serious current, your average output voltage will drop
downward toward 15 KV.  It's probably more realistic to use 15 or 16 KV in
your calculations.

--Steve Young

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Subject: Re: calculating ripple


> Original poster: "Crow Leader by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
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> My actual circuit will be 14.4kVAC -at- 60Hz into a full wave bridge
rectifier
> which will charge a filter cap to run my coil. I'm assuming the following
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> 14.4kVAC * 1.4 = 20kVDC
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