On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 04:09:40 -0400 Michael A. Terrell wrote: | | snipped-for-privacy@ipal.net wrote: |> |> On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:37:54 -0400 Michael A. Terrell wrote: |> | |> | snipped-for-privacy@ipal.net wrote: |> |>
|> |> On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:03:30 -0400 Michael A. Terrell wrote: |> |>
|> |> | The arcing commutator would generate so much hash that all you would |> |> | get would be a loud buzz. Any time the brush loses contact with the |> |> | armature, it arcs. |> |>
|> |> And a filter that can remove 60 Hz (or whatever slow rate was in use back in |> |> Edisn's day) could not clean up some modulated noise band at higher freqs? |> | |> | |> | Did you even read what you posted? That is one of your most pathetic |> | attempts at trolling, to date. |> |> Do you even understand filters at all? | | | Sure, from line frequency up to 11 GHZ. Ever work with Sallen-Key? | Butterworth? How about FIR filters, and using them with DSP? How about | UHF diplexers that handle over 200 KW? A filter can only do so much | with the input, or we would still be using TRF radios. IOW, you can't | make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, no matter how much you whine, or | how many hissy fits you throw.
Very good. You must have done some Googling to find all those terms.
| The only 'filter' that would work with your ridiculous pulsing DC | would be a battery bank or a band of huge electrolytics. The battery | would be a better choice, because the electrolytics would heat up quite | a bit from all the AC flowing through them.
They do make filters for smoothing out the ripple that comes from converting AC to DC. Ever tried one of those? Most of them are low pass. Raise the frequency and the filtering is more effective.
| Those arching brushes would fail every EMI/RFI standard. Do you | understand that? Or to make it even simpler for you, it would wipe out | all radio & TV OTA signals for quite a distance. If it was a large | power plant, it could be a mile or more each side of the HV distribution | lines.
I never said that arcing brushes would pass EMI/RFI standards. The subject was on the power wiring. A low pass filter would block the higher frequencies on that path. What you do on the antenna connection is anothr matter.