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Model 38 Power supply
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One problem though, none of those designs supplies the 135 vdc you need. You don't really need Zener diodes in a B+ supply anyhow, those battery eliminators from the 1940s and 50s used a Pi filter like an AC/DC set and there was minimal hum or ripple with the right size electrolytics. If you used a filter choke, or a solid state substitute, there would be no ripple.
I have a schematic someplace from a Radio Craft magazine that uses an old style circuit where they supply the bias voltages through a resistor network in the B- through a resistor network. I may have it on file someplace as I sent it to Bob for his Philco 623 project. These days you can hook up diodes backwards to achieve the same result off of a cheap transformer.
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Arran


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Model 38 Power supply - by St Tee - 05-29-2014, 01:36 PM
RE: Model 38 Power supply - by morzh - 05-29-2014, 05:29 PM
RE: Model 38 Power supply - by David - 05-29-2014, 07:17 PM
RE: Model 38 Power supply - by David - 05-29-2014, 07:20 PM
RE: Model 38 Power supply - by Arran - 05-30-2014, 01:23 AM
RE: Model 38 Power supply - by David - 05-30-2014, 12:45 PM
RE: Model 38 Power supply - by Ron Ramirez - 05-30-2014, 01:01 PM
RE: Model 38 Power supply - by St Tee - 05-30-2014, 10:58 PM
RE: Model 38 Power supply - by morzh - 05-30-2014, 11:04 PM
RE: Model 38 Power supply - by Ron Ramirez - 05-30-2014, 11:19 PM
RE: Model 38 Power supply - by St Tee - 05-31-2014, 12:01 AM
RE: Model 38 Power supply - by St Tee - 05-31-2014, 12:10 AM



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