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Old 10-29-2011, 08:34 AM   #362 (permalink)
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Its alive!!! Alive I say! Had two small problems. Seems my secondhand 3 phase bridge rectifer had a shorted diode. Fortunatly , I powered up with a light bulb in series with the mains supply (old habits die hard!) so no damage was done. Moral of that story : don't use cheap second hand parts. Next the display told me my mains bus was at -900vdc. I missed out two pins on the arduino and pcb. Once they were fitted it ran up no problem with 300w of light bulb load. Now running a 240v 2500w electric oven element as per the photos. I'll have some video and more photos later if it doesn't explode
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Now, Cole, when you shift the gear and that little needle on the ammeter goes into the red and reads 2000 Amps, that's bad.
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