The regulator input never gets here more than 15V because I have a serious
load on the unregulated section ( connected directly to the filtering
capacitors ).
Knowing this potential is a projecting rule for this kind of garbage
supplys. Also you must know which is the whole variation domain for cos_fi
on your local mains ( it's important to know if you have a more inductive
or more capacitive loads connected on the same mains ) The capacitive
reactance for pure resistive loads or for inductive loads is not the same
(thinking from the capacitor life point of wiew ) and must be computed both
for maximum voltage variation and supply cos_fi variation.

Probably my last english phrases will be dificult to understood...
Cheers, Vasile


On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Spehro Pefhany wrote:

> At 11:32 PM 7/26/01 +1000, you wrote:
>
> >Hi Vasile! Great web page! But that picture power.gif
> >scares me a bit! The only thing limiting the voltage
> >across C5 is the current drawn by the load!!
>
> The regulator or C5 will break down before it gets to 50V,
> most likely. ;-)
>
> Best regards,
>
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