[Amps] power supply question

[Steve Eldridge]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "kenw2dtc" <kenw2dtc at comcast.net>
To: <Amps at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 9:41 AM
Subject: [Amps] power supply question


> I've been running a power supply at 4800 volts and am thinking of
going to
> the next tap which will yield 5600 VDC.
>
> The capacitive input filter is sixteen 2400 MFD 450 VDC computer
grade caps
> (150 MFD @ 7200 VDC) each cap bypassed with 100K 5% 3W resistors.
> Considering all the tolerances in the circuit will I still be in the
comfort
> zone at 5600 VDC ?
>
> 73,
> Ken W2DTC
>
Wow!

You are storing an awesome amount of energy in that amount of C at
that voltage!

Steve G8IZY