Ferroresonant Transformers and Making the Centurion Complete!

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First things first, Open House at System Source Museum! Date and Time: October 23, 2023, 1500 - 1900 Location: System Source Museum, 338 Clubhouse Rd. Hunt Valley, MD 21031 Link: https://museum.syssrc.com/ We may have lost the battle in the previous episode, but we sure as heck aint gonna lose the war! In this episode, we dive in deep on the power supply. It’s a weird one too – a ferroresonant supply. No, I didn’t just make that word up, it’s a real thing, I promise! So, let’s find out just what that is, and then let’s dig into the supply itself and find out just what exactly went wrong. Check out CuriousMarc’s channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@CuriousMarc Centurion Wiki: https://github.com/Nakazoto/CenturionComputer/wiki If you want to support the channel please hop over to Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/usagielectric Also, we now have some epic shirts for sale! https://my-store-11554688.creator-spring.com Come join us on Discord and Twitter! Discord: https://discord.gg/p7UsfHD Twitter: https://twitter.com/UsagiElectric Intro Music adapted from: Artist: The Runaway Five Title: The Shinra Shuffle https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01847 Thanks for watching! Chapters 0:00 Open House at System Source Museum! 1:29 Where did we leave off? 3:52 First things first, what is a Ferroresonant power supply? 5:45 Let’s start with a regular transformer 7:51 Both feet first into the deep end with Ferroresonant transformers 12:29 Once we got our stable AC, then what? 13:45 What went wrong on our power supply? 16:04 Zeroing in on the issue 18:19 A full day later… 23:13 Victory! 24:17 Begin rant 25:55 End rant 26:22 Putting it all back together 28:27 The final test! 32:11 Bunny!