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Reply to ""Universal" Motors: AC Vs. DC"

JTrains posted:
RoyBoy posted:

Just get a postwar American Flyer or Lionel transformer and put a bridge rectifier between the out put and the track. Simple and cheap.

True - but without some filtering on the BR's output you then have a huge 120Hz ripple in the resulting DC.  It certainly will work - but with that amount of ripple I'm not sure that any "benefits" of running a universal motor on DC would still accrue.

There are no benefits to running a series wound universal motor on DC. They run the same as they do on AC.

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