a question about resistors in an arc experiment

That's the circuit I used, in a box with two 9-volt batteries, in my class project ca 1968. I used a 709 opamp, as I recall. It was fun, plugging negative numbers into all the classic circuit equations and seeing the actual waveforms.

Sylvia should try it.

John

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John Larkin
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It works fine in LT Spice. A -10 ohm resistor connected to a 1 volt battery charges the battery at 0.1 amps.

Perhaps you meant "simulate in hardware." If that's what you meant, you should have said so.

John

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John Larkin

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There's (at least) one nice direct application of this idea - compensating for the winding resistance in a DC motor speed controller.

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John Devereux
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John Devereux

I think it's accurate to call the hardware circuit an *emulation* of a negative resistor. Which can of course be simulated :) But the hardware implementation is - or has - a real, physical, resistance.

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John Devereux
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John Devereux

You can do that in power supplies, too, to make up for wire resistance to a remote load. A lot of hysteretic buck switchers have inherent negative output resistance, for reasons I don't know.

John

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John Larkin

I withdraw my "smart girl" comments.

...Jim Thompson

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Jim Thompson

slope

Well, the point is to have fun with whatever anybody posts, isn't it?

John

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John Larkin

Yeah, I just said it was nice to have a girlie around. :)

Maybe she's cute.

On a related note, I was just contemplating the wisdom of the 19th ammendment, when I remembered that it was immediately preceded by 3 foolish and regrettable ammendments which men alone voted for.

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Tom Del Rosso

This is SOP in brush DC motor drives. It is called "IR Compensation" in the industry.

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Spehro Pefhany

Kilovolts? Where do the kilovolts come from, and when?

John

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John Larkin

If you actually know anything about the electrical properties of arcs, say so. Seems what you mostly do is juvenile he-said-she-said crap.

John

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John Larkin

power.

He should have listened to them. He might not have died of a morphine OD.

John

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John Larkin

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Yeah, he might have died of boredom instead.

JF
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John Fields

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Oh, don\'t be a PITA.

JF
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John Fields

power.

See the movie. He was a very stressed-out individual.

...Jim Thompson

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Jim Thompson

You make my point, and in the least original way possible.

John

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John Larkin

power.

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Just trying hard not to confuse you, John.

JF
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John Fields

From the negative resistor, of course. As the current approaches zero, the voltage approaches infinity. ;-)

Hope This Helps! Rich

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Rich Grise

That *does not help* !

John

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John Larkin

Usually, when an electronics engineer draws an opamp, he's not trying to pass the circuit off as something it isn't.

Sylvia.

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Sylvia Else

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