On 14 Feb 2005 at 22:54, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:

> > The energy of a half-wave
> > rectifier is .7 the energy of full-wave sinusoidal AC
> 
> The suggestion was to put a diode in series with the lamp. No capacitors
> (or inductors or other storage elements). You want to say that this
> istuation the energy in half the sine (say positive halve only) is 0.7
> times the energy in the full sine? So the energy in the positive + the
> negative halves must be 1.4 the energy in the full sine ???? I think you
> should apply for a patent immediately!
> 
> Wouter van Ooijen
> 

	Watch your power meter because some of them can run faster 
with a half-wave load!

	Mark Jordan


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