Recent content by trchambe

I wonder if the contacts are behaving as a small capacitor. When open, the voltage across it with charge up to the peak AC voltage... you would then measure a 170Vdc voltage. When the contacts are closed, the "capacitor" is gone, so you would measure 105Vdc as explained above. Out of...

Where are you putting your probes? Are you measuring on either side of the contacts, or are you measuring from the line side to some system neutral?

If you don't have a capacitor on the output, you really don't have a DC signal... simply a full wave rectified signal. You said you're measuring 105Vdc, so I assume your voltmeter is set to DC rather than AC. If so, you would measure approximately 105Vdc... but because there is no DC, you're...

Thank you for your replies. I finally did find an answer buried away in one of my old text books. It is indeed dependent upon the current. If anyone happens upon this post looking for an answer, I found it in "Power Systems Modelling and Fault Analysis" by Tleis. I don't recommend this book...

There is plenty of information out there on modeling the impedance matrix of two parallel lines of the same voltage. I'm having a hard time finding any information on a scenario in which we have two circuits of different voltages in the same corridor. Can anyone point me to a reference, text...

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