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![]() You're pretty much on base with some some slight adjustments. The switching frequency is about ten times higher about 100KHz or so. The high voltage might be full wave rectified, doubled or boosted by a power factor corrector .... but 300V is close. The step down transformer is usually an E-E core or ETD core. The toroids are output inductors. An additional inductor is used for 3.3V in some supplies as a magnetic amplifier, which lops off some pulse width from the +5V output. It's possible to modify a PC supply and add a B+ output but you'd have to re-wind the transformer and output inductor(s). Usually the outputs are cross-regulated. That is the +5V is the regulated channel and the other outputs track due to the transformer turns ratios (sometimes with help from weighted-sum voltage sensing.) That's why the 5V output has to be loaded to get any output from the +12V. If the 6.3VDC output was most of the power it would make sense to use the 5V channel for this, strip off the other outputs and wind a new secondary for your B+ in their place. You're right, the transformer and filter components would be much, much smaller. Though you'll need room for additional EMI filtering... even so it's still much smaller. Some newer PC supplies spread the clock frequency (frequency modulate it with pseudo random noise) which can help. Understand that inside a typical computer switching power supply there is a higher multi kilohertz voltage (350v RMS????) produced by the switching action of the rectified 115 or 230 volt AC input? This high freq AC through various usually toroidal step down transforner windings is then rectified to provided the plus and minus 5, 12 volt outputs etc. Correct? We recently modified such a power supply to get a single 12 volt DC output at about 20 amps for a particular, amateur radio application. In order to do so we had to load one of the 5 volt ouputs with a couple of amps in order to get the unit to work; but that's normal. Question: Is it possible to get at that higher AC voltage inside and directly rectify it as a B+ supply for tube equipment? While also possibly tiddling one or more of the 5 volt DC outputs closer to 6.3 volts for tube heaters? Rectified 10 or 20 kilohertz wouldn't need much filtering compared to 60 or 120 DC ripple of a conventiaonl power supply? Recall building a number of conventional 50 and 60 hertz power supplies many years ago with heavy chokes and large capacitors. But now have a number of slightly older ex computer power supplies of various wattages around. Or is the idea completly off base? |
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