[Amps] Combiners for SS amps + cooling issues.

Bill Turner dezrat1242 at yahoo.com
Sat Sep 14 22:49:06 EDT 2013


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On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 08:59:59 +0900, Leigh wrote:

>A secondary concern would be decoupling the direct rectification circuitry
>from transients and large amplitude spikes often riding on the incoming
>mains voltage. These spikes would need to be adequately suppressed from
>reaching the FET drains lest there be a risk of breakdown damage.
>
>Leigh
>VK5KLT 

REPLY:

If the bridge rectifier is feeding a large capacitor directly, shouldn't
that be enough protection against transients? 

 I'm no expert on power line transients so I'll defer to those who are. 

73, Bill W6WRT



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