[AMPS] Zener screen supplies

[Tom Rauch]

> 
> A clarification - my original comment about current limiting referred
> to the sinking capacity of a shunt regulator, so that the regulator
> didn't have to handle arc current, and the screen meter got protected.
> 
> Steve


I think some of us are making a simple circuit more complex than 
it needs to be!!
 
Why build the regulator so semiconductors handle nearly full anode 
voltage, plus have a response time in nanoseconds, when a few 
cheap parts would be just as effective or more effective?



73, Tom W8JI
W8JI@contesting.com 

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