reducing current by half

WBahn

Joined Mar 31, 2012
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Any reasonable long run solution ultimately involves a redesign of the coils, not rigging some adapter. Maybe you only need a short run solution today, but any "conversion" approach adds cost and removes elegance. Customers will not be impressed and your competitors will eat you alive. Just my marketing 2¢. I wouldn't launch until the product was as perfect as I know how to make it.
Aside from that, you would have to get the eventual design certified, so that should be taken into account in deciding whether to get a stopgap solution certified now or to just get the eventual design.

Now, lot's of things are not directly compatible with the available line voltage, so having part of the product be something that converts the available line power to a suitable power for the device is not, in and of itself, an unreasonable thing to do.
 
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