[Amps] Step Start And Transformer Surge Current

[Peter Chadwick]

Surely one advantage of step start, regardless of transformer type, is that you reduce the surge charging current into the filter capacitors? Presumably, with choke input and a suitable transformer magnetic design, you can get away without, although personally, the minuscule cost of step start is such that it seems to me to be worth including whatever sort of transformer/choke input/capacitor input combination you are using.
73
Peter G3RZP