a little help with capacitive power supply values

[Dennis]

Steve :-) ....
OK .. I actually un-voluntarily spat the sip of coffee out trying to suppress the laughter :-) and am still having a good chuckle ... laughing with you not at you!
I had a similar incident on an old Zenith CGA and EGA monitors whose chasis' was live/hot.
In order to get the colours and sync right one had to use a very long trim-pot tool , sometimes we had to improvise and use a long screw-driver because all of the trim-pot tools were out of the workshop in the field with other technicians to make matter worse we would place the monitor on a metal trolley with wheels.

With the right (wrong!) combination of screw-driver and hand grips and a kinda left-hand suzuki method I very quickly was sent hurtling with an ear-piercing yell across the workshop into the bench behind me knocking my mentor straight off his feet !

Well needless to say after the initial shock was over and it was established that I was OK, the entire workshop spent the rest of the day laughing to crack their sides. And I definitely feel quite wound up after that.

There's that statement in the Star Trek intro "to boldy go where no man (or woman) has gone before"
There are some options of course
"to boldly go where no man (or woman) has come back from before"
or
"to boldly go where men (and women) have come back from before"
or
"to boldly go"
finally ..."just don't go !"

Thanks for the offer .. would you like to try the circuits a few posts ago or would you like something more finished ?

Awaiting an episode of the unexplained now I think !


By the way this was an interesting find of yours..! Definitely puts and angle on things !
I was wondering all through the article where the bleed resistors where ... and then saw them and mention of them in the last few pages !

A Capacitor-Fed, Voltage-Step-Down, Single-Phase, Non-Isolated ...
http://www.grix.it/UserFiles/Powermo...L_acfvsdsp.pdf

Kind regards
Dennis