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Default Carver PM-1.5a amp

On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:48:14 +1000, Phil Allison wrote:

"Meat Plow"


Adaptive or commutating power supply. Adds more rail the harder it's
driven.


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There is a triac "dimmer" circuit in the AC voltage feed to the power
ranny - it acts to regulate the ( multiple )DC rails under load.

This allows a very small AC tranny to be used with limitations on duty
cycle.



Rails don't like continuous sine waves.


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**** off Phil




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