Re: solid state power control

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Original poster: "Sean Taylor by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <taylorss-at-rose-hulman.edu>

I haven't done it YET, but I plan to try it at some point, when I get some
free time.  I have a few SCRs that rated at around 1000 V, 100 A, so I could
control a decent size load with them IF it works.  I'm thinking it wouldn't
work too well without some serious filtering and protection for the
semiconductors because the devices control the power by controlling when
they turn on.  IGBTs would be better because you can control the on AND off
time, so a much less distorted wavform could be sent to the to the
transformer, and thus less kickback into the semiconductors.  I just need to
get some power IGBTs and I could try it all out . . .
Sean Taylor

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Subject: solid state power control


> Original poster: "Steve Cook by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<steve-at-g8cyerichmond.freeserve.co.uk>
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> Does anyone have any experience running solid state power control rather
than
> using Variacs, what I'm looking for is something in the region of 500VA, -at-
> 240V, to feed a NST. I know most simple circuits don't like inductive
loads.
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