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Old November 19th 05, 03:30 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.homebrew
Ken Scharf
 
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Default choke input voltage doubler?

I was looking at some power supply circuits for
tube linears and was thinking about the full wave
voltage doubler. This is basicly two half wave
rectifiers in series. Now I could build this
circuit with a choke input filter for each half
wave rectifier of the voltage doubler, and I could
put the chokes in the lead without the rectifier.
In this case I could use one choke for both halfs
of the voltage doubler. The output should then
be about .9 * rms input voltage * 2
or 1.8 times the rms voltage of the transformer.

Has anybody ever tried this?

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Crude schematic showing transformer secondary
diodes filter choke and capacitors.