Nano Power Inverter - Roll Your Own Style

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Warpspeed Guru Joined: 09/08/2007 Location: Australia Posts: 4406	Posted: 10:19am 22 May 2019       That's a pretty interesting observation Mike. Driving the transformer asymmetrically will certainly tend towards a form of staircase saturation in one direction, but the interesting thing is that almost all that stored energy appears to be returned back to the source on the opposite half cycle. So as you say, mostly just circulating current, but no real power being dissipated. If you think about it, its only milliamps, and the ohmic resistance of a monster like that will be rather low, so the resistive losses are going to be low too. Cheers,  Tony.