[Amps] Choke-input with voltage doubler?

[Jim Kearman]

From: Steve Thompson <g8gsq at eltac.co.uk>

>I've also been 
> burned (both metaphorically and literally) by attractive looking big 
> transformers which turn out to have been designed for use with choke 
> input. Hook them onto a capacitor input PSU, and you get much less power 
> than you were expecting, lousy regulation, and the smell of burning 
> insulation.

My friend obtained a 1000-VCT brute of a transformer, weighs 25 lb. Old Chicago Transformer, potted, looks mil-surplus. I assume it was made for a choke-input filter. He wants to use the full secondary with a full-wave voltage doubler. This will be for a linear that will be used for continuous-carrier DSB AM. Looks as though two chokes would be required? Thanks.

73,

Jim, KR1S
http://kr1s.kearman.com/