[Boatanchors] [Milsurplus] OK Smart People: Capacitive VoltageDivider?

Rob Atkinson ranchorobbo at gmail.com
Sun Mar 18 09:41:27 EDT 2012


Ah HA.  Thanks John; I did not get that part (obviously).  I had a
different and flawed understanding of this.

73

Rob
K5UJ

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 8:09 AM, jmfranke <jmfranke at cox.net> wrote:
> No, the primary winding and the filament winding are to be connected in
> series with the line voltage across the combined winding. What you are
> wanting to construct is an autotransformer. Basically you are adding the
> turns in the filament winding to those in the primary. The new line voltage
> is taken from across the primary winding. If the new voltage is greater than
> the line voltage, reverse the connections to the filament winding.


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