In Reply to: Re: Which PS would you rather listen to? posted by Thomas Mayer on May 8, 2007 at 06:44:42:
Thomas>> When you scope the voltage at the input side of the choke
>> (or after the rectifier) you will see that it is not just
>> a rectified sinus going from 0 to the crest voltage, but
>> it also sags below zero, which would indicate that the diode
>> would still conduct even if it's input voltage approaches 0.When the diode stops conducting it doesn't care
what the choke wants - it isn't conducting.
Now you have the inductor drawing current that
the diode isn't supplying so then you get the
lowering of the choke's supply side voltage.
The choke is sucking every available electron from
the wire and causing a voltage spike which only
discourages the diode from conducting all the more.DanL
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