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AC Coil Operation

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faulkma

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Feb 2, 2007
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Just need some advice:

Have a customer who wants to operate a Coil in an extreme input voltage range (13 VAC to 190 VAC ). The design must have no DC or caps in it. Any ideas, a multi-stage coil design via a relay/resistor arrangment?
 
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