Ok, I gave it a try. Attached you will find my circuit and some results. The voltage sources where adjusted to give exactly the same output voltage for the enhanced and the standard circuit. The standard circuit uses exactly the same amount of microfarads as the enhanced version (both 10 mF).
The resulting graph for voltage and current flow shows one nice effect, the current into R7 is more constant and shows smaller loading peaks (5 A for the enhanced and 10 A for the standard circuit).
The FFT shows a 6 dB improvement, but above 360 KHz it is deteriorating.
When you measure the loading peaks supplied from the transformer you will see that these are almost equal for both circuits (the peaks for the enhanced circuit are a bit wider).
Overall, I do not think that this circuit is a major improvement over the standard circuit. It is a minor improvement for sure, but I do not think that it is worth the effort. Real life experiments must be done to get to a final conclusion.
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Here is another circuit that claims less rectifier noise :https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/rOgiSl8IVgPdqOcKLPkbNNMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink
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Ladies and gentleman,
Today I invented a new component, it has 3 legs (in, out, ground), and it is called ‘Area 51’.
Have a good look at the graphs, the upper one is of the standard circuit (the lower one) and the lower one (set of graphs) is of the ‘Area 51’ (upper) circuit.
See that the ‘Area 51’ component improves all specifications of the standard product (at an estimated cost of less than 3 Euro’s).
The output ripple is less than half
The transformer peak current is down from 10A to less than 2A
The capacitor charge current is down to less than 2A
The capacitor is charged during (about) 70% of the cycle.
Is this what you are looking for (stepped rectifiers, charge transfer power supplies end more).
Let me know (in the end I will reveal the contents of the ‘Area 51’ circuit.
Regards,
Frans.
Ladies and gentleman,
Today I invented a new component, it has 3 legs (in, out, ground), and it is called ‘Area 51’.
Have a good look at the graphs, the upper one is of the standard circuit (the lower one) and the lower one (set of graphs) is of the ‘Area 51’ (upper) circuit.
See that the ‘Area 51’ component improves all specifications of the standard product (at an estimated cost of less than 3 Euro’s).
The output ripple is less than half
The transformer peak current is down from 10A to less than 2A
The capacitor charge current is down to less than 2A
The capacitor is charged during (about) 70% of the cycle.
Is this what you are looking for (stepped rectifiers, charge transfer power supplies end more).
Let me know (in the end I will reveal the contents of the ‘Area 51’ circuit.
Regards,
Frans.
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Not so quick, what do you think of it? What is your gestimate of the contents? Would you use it? etc... let me know and lets talk about it a bit
Regards,
Frans.
Most importantly, I would like to know how this compares with other circuits like the stepped rectifiers and the charge transfer supply. And I would like to know why you lot seem to like these (because I think the difference would be marginal).
Maybe the question is; go on convince me, teach me some 'high end' voodoo. You see I am a bit of a skeptic (about those tweeks)
Maybe the question is; go on convince me, teach me some 'high end' voodoo. You see I am a bit of a skeptic (about those tweeks)
The graphs mostly show the currents that flow in the circuit.
More precise, the currents delivered by the voltage source (transformer) these are I(V1), I(V2), I(V3) and I(V4) and they are 11A, 11A, 2A and 2A.
The next one is the charging currents of the capacitors I(C1) and I(C2) and they are 10A and 1A.
The load currents I(R3) and I(R5) both at 1A
The load voltage V(V+a) and V(V+b), these are 'Area 51' and 'standard' circuit, both about 14V but the 'Area 51' circuit gives half the ripple voltage.
Regards,
Frans.