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Grundig and there NON FILTERED power supply for the SATELLIT800.
helmsman schrieb: Had I known that Grundig sold ... the SATELLIT 800. .... This "thing" is NOT a Grundig! Grundig is out of buisines for years and years, sadly enough. It's just companies playing games with "good old brand names". odo |
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I've never run into an external power supply that didn't need some work to
optimize it for noise suppression. Even the AOR7030's power supply benefited from a little extra work. For about 2 dollars worth of components, any power supply can be made to be quiet. Connect .01uF caps across each of the rectifier diodes, and bypass each leg of the power transformer's secondary to ground with 1uF non-polarized caps to ground, and you are all set. Make sure that you derate the 1uF units to at least twice the peak to peak output voltage of the transformer. There is no such thing as a good wall wart, from Radio Shack or anybody else. Even the relatively expensive Power One frame supplies need these add-ons. The reason that these manufacturers don't do this in the first place is because they don't have to subject their units to stringent EMC testing. I hope this helps. Pete "Volker Tonn" wrote in message ... helmsman schrieb: Had I known that Grundig sold ... the SATELLIT 800. .... This "thing" is NOT a Grundig! Grundig is out of buisines for years and years, sadly enough. It's just companies playing games with "good old brand names". odo |
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Pete KE9OA wrote:
I've never run into an external power supply that didn't need some work to optimize it for noise suppression. Even the AOR7030's power supply benefited from a little extra work. For about 2 dollars worth of components, any power supply can be made to be quiet. Connect .01uF caps across each of the rectifier diodes, and bypass each leg of the power transformer's secondary to ground with 1uF non-polarized caps to ground, and you are all set. Make sure that you derate the 1uF units to at least twice the peak to peak output voltage of the transformer. There is no such thing as a good wall wart, from Radio Shack or anybody else. Even the relatively expensive Power One frame supplies need these add-ons. The reason that these manufacturers don't do this in the first place is because they don't have to subject their units to stringent EMC testing. I hope this helps. Pete, What is your preferred method for cutting the wall wart open? -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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How much current does SAT 800 draw? The AC ripple, buzzing (
60 Hz 2nd harmonic), RFI from the power grid, computer generated hash may be so severe at times that NO 110V adapter can solve the problem. Pure DC is found only in batteries... Try an external battery (like an alarm uses with a dropping resistor or a 12 light bulb ) . |
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Those things are pretty hard to open up............I had the roughest time
with the one for my FGR100, but if you are careful, a utility razor can do the job. Gluing it back together is another thing. Probably, the safest adhesive is epoxy. There are better agents (Methylene Chloride), but these are very dangerous. Pete "starman" wrote in message ... Pete KE9OA wrote: I've never run into an external power supply that didn't need some work to optimize it for noise suppression. Even the AOR7030's power supply benefited from a little extra work. For about 2 dollars worth of components, any power supply can be made to be quiet. Connect .01uF caps across each of the rectifier diodes, and bypass each leg of the power transformer's secondary to ground with 1uF non-polarized caps to ground, and you are all set. Make sure that you derate the 1uF units to at least twice the peak to peak output voltage of the transformer. There is no such thing as a good wall wart, from Radio Shack or anybody else. Even the relatively expensive Power One frame supplies need these add-ons. The reason that these manufacturers don't do this in the first place is because they don't have to subject their units to stringent EMC testing. I hope this helps. Pete, What is your preferred method for cutting the wall wart open? -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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ATTACK IT WITH a DREMEL microdisc abrasive disc (like what you saw on
their ad cut thru a nail...there are heavier ones made of diamond impregnated metal like a A baby air chisel Franlkly tho wall warts are so cheap it's easier to replace it...but it's almost BETTER to make a simple 3-terminal regulator in a minibox Parts: diode-bridge chip bias resistor or potentiometer xfmr filter capacitor load resisitor pcb substrate yodar Pete KE9OA wrote: Those things are pretty hard to open up............I had the roughest time with the one for my FGR100, but if you are careful, a utility razor can do the job. Gluing it back together is another thing. Probably, the safest adhesive is epoxy. There are better agents (Methylene Chloride), but these are very dangerous. Pete |
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Yodar wrote:
ATTACK IT WITH a DREMEL microdisc abrasive disc (like what you saw on their ad cut thru a nail...there are heavier ones made of diamond impregnated metal like a A baby air chisel That's how I cut open a wallwart too but be careful about not breathing the plastic dust. Use a face filter mask. -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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"Pete KE9OA" wrote in message ... [..] For about 2 dollars worth of components, any power supply can be made to be quiet. Connect .01uF caps across each of the rectifier diodes, and bypass each leg of the power transformer's secondary to ground with 1uF non-polarized caps to ground, and you are all set. [..] I may well have this completely wrong, but wouldn't the 1uF caps from the secondaries to ground introduce (common-mode) ripple on the positive and negative outputs ? Barry |
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