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Default Thoughts on this little oddity, anyone ...?

Phil Allison wrote:

"Cydrome Leader"

** Bob Carver was an expert at coming up with high falutin' names for
various clever dodges he used to save weight and cost.

His " Magnetic Field " amps were nothing of the kind. They simply
employed
a triac based voltage regulator in the AC supply to improve the
regulation
factor of a ridiculously small iron transformer.


Hmm, was anybody in the 70s not obsessed with triac pre-regulation in all
sorts of power supplies?



** What drugs are you on ?


Want some?

As I said, all sorts of old power supplies were made with SCRs and
preregulators before the transformer.

The smaller HP/Agilent bench power supplies are still made this way. I
guess you get a smaller heatsink and a little more efficiency.