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In Reply to: The Skinny on tube rectifiers... posted by joe Rosen on June 23, 2001 at 09:32:39:
> Yes, if you stick a choke DIRECTLY onto the output of the rectifier
> tube, you can use more capacitance downstream. This is Mr. Choke's
> DC resistance doing you a charge-current limiting favour, nothing
> more.Actually, it's Mr. Choke's AC reactance keeping the switching
harmonics from shorting to ground through the capacitor. Look,
Joe, I don't mean to get in a fight here. You have an opportunity
to push the envelope of what you think you know. Or you can remain
in blissful ignorance. Either way is fine by me.Walter
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- Re: The Skinny on tube rectifiers... - Walter Mitty 14:59:22 06/23/01 (0)