Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!
Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!
-
Congratulations cowski on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
-
Inrush Current Simulation
Lakey, Thanks, I had a similar idea, and a good thing about that configuration is that the leakage path would be way low so that upon removing power from the circuit, the charge from the capacitor would be drained off quite rapidly, which would providing a "refreshed" circuit quickly after...- DPG4
- Post #11
- Forum: Circuit design
-
Inrush Current Simulation
Thanks for the input, I think I am lying some where in the middle. The original quote I got for the system using electronic loads was well over that, and hence why I am looking into other options. Another problem I am facing that is not of a huge technical issue but rather one of economy is...- DPG4
- Post #8
- Forum: Circuit design
-
Inrush Current Simulation
Yea, bogeyman, that is my point. If I am to construct this test set up it should be repeatable, producing similar inrush currents each time (if possible). So I will leave it open again for anyone, is there a common circuit configuration that would be able to reproduce this type of inrush...- DPG4
- Post #6
- Forum: Circuit design
-
Inrush Current Simulation
Thanks for the input! The light bulbs are a great idea as long as I take into consideration the temperature of the light bulb. As the inductive kick from the light bulbs is a artifact of its temperature, right? So once the bulb is warm it shouldn't produce much of an inductive spike, and I...- DPG4
- Post #3
- Forum: Circuit design
-
Inrush Current Simulation
I have a box with ~50 loads that it drives, of which consist of lights, solenoids and some pretty hefty hydraulic motors (ranging from 5W to 4.5kW). To test this box and put it through its paces (nominal and over current conditions), I am charged with developing a load box that will simulate...- DPG4
- Thread
- Replies: 10
- Forum: Circuit design
