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Re: [TenTec] station power supplies

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] station power supplies
From: "Roy" <royanjoy@ncn.net>
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Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 12:54:50 -0500
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"Not true. A power transformer connected to the power line will draw
magnetizing current, and there will be power dissipated."

In spirit if the original statement, of course I assumed the peripheral, small losses. He was suggesting that without a load & 'idling', a linear supply was wasteful of a lot of power in its regulator heat sink.


Roy K6XK

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