At 11:00 AM 12/26/2011, Electron wrote:

>1) A nice sinusoid comes from a transformer.
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>2) It passes through a diodes bridge, so it's rectified now.
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>3) My PIC32 shorts it through an NPN transistor, effectively=20
>exploiting the inductance of the secondary of the transformer. Yes,=20
>it can withstand the resulting voltage spikes. :)

Side question: are the diodes that make up the bridge rectifier fast=20
or ultra-fast diodes?  If not, you will be seeing significant losses=20
from those diodes.

dwayne

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Trinity Electronics Systems Ltd    Edmonton, AB, CANADA
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Custom Electronics Design and Manufacturing

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