Re: Current Limiting and Impedence

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Original poster: "Paul B. Brodie" <pbbrodie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Gerry,
It isn't confusing at all. I had completely forgotten that Z = sqrt(R^2 + 
X^2). That little reminder brought everything clear as can be. At least I 
can still adhere to Z total = Z1 + Z2 + ... Zn. Thank you very much for 
your explanation.
Paul
Think Positive

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Subject: Re: Current Limiting and Impedence

> Original poster: "Gerald  Reynolds" 
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> Hi Mark,
>
> This can be a confusing area.
>
> Series resistances add:
> Rtotal = R1 + R2
>
> For parallel resistances, the conductances (G) add:
> Gtotal = G1 + G2
>
> or expressed as resistance:
> 1/Rtotal = 1/R1 + 1/R2
>
> Now the tough part:
>
> Impedance, in the general case, has resistive (R) and reactive (X)
> components (sometimes refered to as the real and imaginary parts).  For
> series impedances, the resistive components add up and the reactive
> components add up (keeping in mind that capacitive reactance is negative
> and inductive reactance is positive) so you get the following:
>
> Ztotal =  Rtotal + jXtotal  = Rtotal + j(XLtotal -XCtotal)
>
> You can't linearly add the resistive and reactive components together.  The
> impedance is a complex number denoted by the j prescript on the reactive
> part.  What you can do instead is determine the magnitude of the impedance
> using:
>
> Z = sqrt(R^2 + X^2)
>
> You can think of the R and X terms being two sides of a right angle
> triangle and the Z being the hypotenus (sp?).  Series impedances add
> similar to resistances in that:
>
> Ztotal = Z1 + Z2
> but one needs to keep to the rules of complex math.
>
> Parallel impedances also behave similar to parallel resistances in that:
>
> 1/Ztotal = 1/Z1 + 1/Z2
> and again one needs to keep to the rules of complex math.
>
> Hope this helps more than being confusing.
>
> Gerry R
>
>>Original poster: "Mark Dunn" <<mailto:mdunn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>mdunn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>>I still don't quite get it.
>>
>>1.  Not that it matters for this question, but I thought I could sum
>>series impedence.  Could you re-confirm? Are you sure you haven't
>>confused with  Z^2 = R^2 + X^2?  I don't mean to question and I am not
>>an expert so I am just making sure.
>>
>>If it is Z^2 then my formula for parallel Z must be wrong.  I'm using
>>1/Z = 1/Z1 + 1/Z2 + ... .  Just like resistance.
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