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Re: [Amps] Microwave Oven Autopsy

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Subject: Re: [Amps] Microwave Oven Autopsy
From: Bill Turner <dezrat@copper.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:09:42 -0800
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At 07:07 PM 3/15/2006, KD7QAE wrote:

>Ferroresonant transformers
>will run quite hot as the core losses are 2 to 4x per pound those of
>high quality linear transformers but they do the one thing that no
>linear transformer can do, deliver a constant voltage with no active
>devices.

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If I remember correctly, they also do a crude form of current 
limiting too, don't they? In case of a short circuit or an overload 
they won't try to dump the entire output of Hoover Dam into your cooking space.

73, Bill W6WRT

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