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    Is it possible to reduce back EMF in DC motors using shorting rings?

    Shorting rings (also called Faraday rings) are commonly used in loudspeakers to reduce the back emf that is induced in their voice coils. Could something similar, i.e. shorted turns of wire that are placed in the same plane as each of the windings in a DC motor, be used to reduce the back emf...
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    My 27kJ capacitor bank seems to be only 27J. Need your help.

    So, I've been doing a lot of spot welding and research/development of this manufacturing process I came up with a while ago, both of which involve high-energy capacitor discharges, and my previous 2.3kJ capacitor bank just wasn't cutting it anymore. So, I invested in 100 "Green-Cap" 2.7v 100F...
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    12 volts to 120 volts the easy way?

    Seeing as how no one really told him what was wrong with his idea, instead opting to ask him the same questions over and over about sine wave purity, I'd say he's busy building a setup according to his original idea. Seriously, what else did you guys need to know about the problem that he didn't...
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    12 volts to 120 volts the easy way?

    Simple way to get around the RMS vs. peak voltage problem: add 4 more batteries. That brings you to a total of 168 volts, which is really close to 170 volts, which is the peak voltage out of your standard 120 volt wall socket. With that out of the way, the only other problem I see with this is...
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    Can't tell if I made a chaotic circuit or if I broke the sim

    So, I was playing around with a couple of voltage multiplier circuits a few months ago, and while optimizing one design, I came up with a pretty neat (not to brag) way of converting a sine wave to a square wave by using transformers in a completely different way than normally. A little while...
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