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GB: Round #9; Fo-Felix AC Filter

Big thing to ask everyone... Can you PM me your email address and name from paypal?

Paypal doesn't show me emails anymore. I want to send the BOM (I've been having trouble access my email on computer with hotspot since during week I'm remote and spent two weeks remote).

Everything is obviously ordered so just need a tiny bit more information for when it arrives.

Thanks
 
Well after the transformer requires more C and it tends to over heat if it's significant. Think about it like this, if you reduce noise by X and then go from 120v to 12v in the transformer what's theft of the noise is 10x less.

If you mean after rectification that's another story. There's more to that.
 
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Thanks, yes definite merits in reducing noise prior to the transformer. Ripple & heat in caps can only be a bad thing.

"If you mean after rectification that's another story. There's more to that."

Yes indeed, for example, has anyone evaluated the difference in approaches. For example,

Scenario 1: Fo-Felix AC -> Transformer -> All caps
Scenario 2: Transformer -> CLC
Scenario 3: Transformer -> CLCLC

<=5mv ripple into the load seems to be the most desirable place to be for amplifiers. I'm just thinking that Fo-Felix could potentially be a more consistent and (maybe) cheaper way of achieving this aim rather than paying for lots of caps and inductors.

Not sure you can model AC filtering in PSU Designer.