[Amps] inexpensive HV fuse

Bill, W6WRT dezrat1242 at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 22 14:56:03 PDT 2009


ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:17:34 -0700 (PDT), Radio WC6W <wc6w_amps at yahoo.com>
wrote:

>
>  IGBT's have evolved to the point where one can build an Electronic Circuit Breaker that will disconnect the load in a microsecond or so.
>
>  This approach avoids dumping all the energy from the filter caps.

REPLY:

Yes but.....

That approach allows all the energy from the filter caps to be dumped into the
arc. We're trying to avoid that.

73, Bill W6WRT


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