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Poormans power enhancer

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Posted by APM on June 16, 2000 at 13:48:46

Hello all,

Its so nice to be so popular:-) It appears my simple little idea needs to be explained. This is one of those moments I wish I could say patent pending:-)

You all appear to be looking at this as I'm trying to create some form of circuit. That is not exactly what is going on here. The wire is used for two purposes to attach to the ac plug and to build up a magnetic field by looping multiple times through the ferrite. I stress in m post at avs that the ferrite needs to be a close to the outlet as possible.

Now since a wall outlet has power lines that come in and out to complete the rest of the electrical circuit this tweak works like a charm. What your doing is applying the magnetic field or impedance directly to the hot and then to the neutral by simply slipping in the ac plug. I learned this trick from Tice a few years back when he was playing with his "transformerless" power conditioner. Anyway adding the magnetic field to both the hot and neutral creates a cheap form of common-mode rejection by balancing the magnetic field in the house wiring which is the reason why I believe people are claiming power correction.

APM

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