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From: anand@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Anand Iyengar)
Newsgroups: rec.audio,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Homebrew audio equipment
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Date: 30 Jul 88 07:17:19 GMT
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In article <22476@amdcad.AMD.COM> rpw3@amdcad.UUCP (Rob Warnock) writes:
	[topic:power supplies for audio amplifiers]
>forget). There are two solutions to this, one old, one new:
>
>1. Old -- use an inductor (a.k.a. "choke") between the diodes and the caps.
>
>2. New -- use a much higher voltage rectifier system, with poor regulation
>
>3. "Regulate under ripple" -- Use a slightly higher transformer voltage,
>   slightly smaller capacitors, get more ripple, less peak diode current.

	Anyone in the know care to comment on how Carver handle supply??  I
get the feeling that they resemble switching supplies the most, but not
enough to fall into that catagory.  


							Anand.