Half Wave supply (oops)

[Rene Schmitz]

At 14:22 21.12.99 -0500, Harry Bissell wrote:
>By now most prople will have found the "faux pas" in my description. One
>side of the Xfmr is the "common" so the comment about the supply getting
>"pulled" to one side is "bvllshit". This only happens in a
>"pseudo-ground" which is used for a full wave bipolar supply where you
>have no center-tap.

Yep, but unequal loading leads to a DC component thru the transformer.
The positive halfwave and the negative halfwave see different loads.
This causes magnetization of the core, and could saturate the core.
It can increase the loss in the transformer if the unbalance is very serious.

Bye
 René




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