Ronv knows his electronics. Probably more so than I. Respect be given unto him, he is worthy of it.
...thats why i already apologised to Ronv..because the reason Ronv used a voltage source was because i had not told well enough that it was all supplied by a current source. The normal way to do this is with a voltage source, and its only normal to do it like that...................this project is an absolute one off, so its difficult for me to explain, but in return, makes it more novel.....................
..........................i'm sure you'll agree that having a 12 foot length of twisted pair wire, and coupling 250W worth of LED luminaires out of it, simply by hooking "couplers" through bits of the wire of the twisted pair is the stuff of sci-fi movies.....................i am still not sure of my employer is BS'ing me here...and thats part of the reason i'm on this forum..................it was only whan yourself ()blivion pointed out R.I.C.'s that i realised that was the technology at play here...........................................i only worked on the emergency light part, which is plain electronics.....but now they asked me to do the dimming rectifier, so i try to understand the bit about R.I.C.s...............
picture in your mind a plain bit of twisted pair wire..............and then imagine hooking an individual coupler through a bit of it, and it supplies a 40W led luminaire from the coupler.................wow.................................as i said, this is what these guys say theyre doing.........................i saw him hook up a luminaire to the twisted pair and it lit.......but it was broad daylight , and i couldnt ascertify if it was 40W worth of light in the few seconds that he kept it working before switching it off.
()blivion thanks for sim.asc.
i ran it, and who knows that may be like it is.........but i think the current on the way to your C1 is a bit too "jagged"..........when i was doing the battery charger bit, which runs off the battery charger R.I.C. , he told me the current was "all very smooth here".....and thus told me to take out the LC filter that i'd put in.
so you used a 1m primary.....and maybe it is for all i know............maybe there is some very very expensive ferrite type that theyre using which gets it that high.
i am still wondering of there is a current transformer buffer between the R.I.C. and the load?
i'd think this project was BS if i hadnt already seen a customer (who is a guy that i used to work with somewhere else) come in as a representative of a big lighting company and speaking of installing the system at his companies HQ.
................coupling 40W out of a bit of twisted pair..............and having up to 12 of these hanging off a 24 foot bit of twisted pair....this is doing my head in...........on another forum, they've told me its not possible.........