Capacitor dropper . - Page 2 - UK Vintage Radio Repair and Restoration Discussion Forum

Skywave · 20th Jul 2017, 12:58 am

I'm with PJL on this: post #8.

Al/

Herald1360 · 20th Jul 2017, 12:23 pm

I agree in principle with that, but the engineer in me is intrigued by the possibility of a much cheaper "good enough for practical purposes" solution that also doesn't waste power unnecessarily.

20th Jul 2017, 2:35 pm

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good enough for practical purposes

Indeed, just get the RMS heater volts right and any error in the HT voltage won't matter much if at all.

20th Jul 2017, 12:58 am	#21
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