> Personally I'd grab one of those 400W+ 36 volt power supplies off
> ebay to give you a decent DC supply (~$30 each)

Yes, I have thought about the NZ second-hand market (US is a little
bit distant). But that won't reduce the pile of transformers and rectifiers
sitting around here, which is part of the exercise. A few projects lately
have pushed me into areas I normally wouldn't dabble (get my fingers
burned ?) in, and I'm getting the hang of this learning-new-stuff

> Then make up a set of switchmode stepdown modules that run
> in parallel off that

Switchmode is certainly one thing I'll be adding, but I was thinking
up, not down. I've enough linears to cover stepdown, and they are
simple. And there

> For extra credit make each supply isolated ;->

Hmmm. Wind my own transformers eh ? What could possibligh
go wrong.....


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