> I didn't look at the part itself, but whats the cost of this
> device and the associated components around it ?

Alan

About NZ$10. 90% of that is the RS price of the tx. I'd be
shopping around of course, but at the prototype stage I'll wear
the odd extra $ for convenience sake. Got something in mind ?

> We tested some small transformers in this role a few years ago.
> They worked fine(ish) at 230V but we needed to go as high as
> 270 or 280. At this voltage they started to saturate and the
> output waveform became very distorted

Richard

I'm more concerned about safety/reliability at the moment. As
long as the tx keeps going (in a repeatable way across all units)
it wouldn't be too hard to characterise the DC output of a full
bridge against input AC. Assuming that the AC input could go
as high as 280 at times, adding a series component could obviate
saturation if necessary

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