[Amps] HV switching power supplys?

[Will Matney]

What you have to watch is by increasing the amount of parts in a power supply, the odds go up dramatically that it will fail sooner over time. The more parts, the more things that can fail and cause a problem. Though switching power supplies work, there's probably 5 times the number of parts that are in a simple transformer type full-wave bridge supply.

Best,

Will

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On 3/17/06 at 2:05 PM PlanerGuy at aol.com wrote:

>In a message dated 3/17/2006 6:52:21 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>ka1xo at juno.com 
>writes:
>
>Are you against using a transformer, rectifier and filter?
>
>Is weight a problem?
>
>Hal
>W4HBM
>Oh no, I'm just curious as to how this is progressing.  The thread on
>MOT's 
>prompted
>the renewed interest.  So many very clever fellows out here, I was sure 
>somebody has
>a design in the works.  Sure would make things nice from a shipping 
>standpoint, so I'll
>bet they have been working on these in the East.
>
>Kevin
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