The Old Ferroresonant MAGNATEK Converters...
These dinosaurs were 30X as common as competitive converters and were a flawed design from the word go... OEM chose the BW Magnatek units because they were the least expensive of the lot. I came a MAG...
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MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Magnatek must have manufactured a dozen different chargers based on ferroresonant control. Again, it's the converter model - AC breakers, fuses, relay and bleed resistor that caused most of the uproar. The cost of a capacitor swap out made repair costly and most owners did not opt for it.
But that model- ( 3200, 6300, 6400, etc.)with the relay and resistors is not a ferroresonant design. It's pure linear- non-regulated, with an added charging circuit. Put in higher voltage, get higher voltage out (on the main outputs).
The ferroresonant design is regulated by design, and is a single output.
The two are completely different, with different problems.
