Re: power supply questions

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Original poster: "S & J Young" <youngs-at-konnections-dot-net> 

Smoothing cap needs to be at least 10 times larger than your primary cap.
--Steve Y.
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Subject: power supply questions


 > Original poster: "Christoph Bohr" <cb-at-luebke-lands.de>
 >
 > Hello!
 >
 > I have two questions about changes I want to make to my power
 > supply:
 >
 > >
 > 2nd: I thought about using DC to feed my coil by rectifying the
 > xformer output with a series setup of 1N4007 diodes under oil and
 > charge a 30nF cap for cmoothing purposes. The main C1 would be
 > 60nF. Can this be done or has the smoothing cap to be bigger than
 > tha primary cap?
 >
 > Any suggestions welcome
 >
 > Sincerely
 >
 > Christoph Bohr
 >
 >
 >