On 8/14/06, William Chops Westfield <westfw@mac.com> wrote:
>
> I've always been curious why there aren't offline supplies that
> use a triac-clipper (ie lamp-dimmer) as an input stage.  Wouldn't
> that provide a very cheap step of voltage reduction that would make
> the following stages much easier?
>
> BillW

HP linear bench supplies do this.

Regards,
Mark
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