Re: Magnetic Rectifier??

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Original poster: "rheidlebaugh by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <rheidlebaugh-at-zialink-dot-com>

Antonio: I concur, If you lose the DC bias on a mag amp circuit all you have
is a transformer. The DC is the control. To produce DC the bias must be at
class B or more.If the bias fails the output would be AC sent to the output.
  Robert  H

> From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 22:01:44 -0700
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> Subject: Re: Magnetic Rectifier??
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> Original poster: "Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <acmq-at-compuland-dot-com.br>
> 
> Tesla list wrote:
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>> Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>
> 
>> Looked at it in Ratzlaf and very disappointed in Mr.T for this
>> nonsense.  Bet he never built one of these and demonstrated it!!!!
> 
> Really, more easy to talk than to demonstrate. But it's not nonsense.
> Note that Tesla proposed to split the AC current in two pathes, each
> with a saturable inductor oppositely biased in the way. The loads
> were inserted in the two pathes, in series with the saturable
> inductors. This would really add some DC current to the current in
> the loads. What causes some confusion, and may be one of the causes
> of the total confusion on those sites mentioned in the original
> post, is that no resistances are shown in the drawing, and the
> bias batteries for the inductors can be erroneously taken by batteries
> being charged by the partially rectified currents.
> 
> Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz
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