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The SLB (Smooth Like Butter) Active Rect/CRC/Cap Mx Class A Power Supply GB

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meanie

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Wow, sound like good news to me!

My heatsink is from Conrad Engineering Australia. The size is 155 x 350mm

Currently temp is 51 degC , very stable thru out.

Can i just connect My M2X directly, i m more concern if the front end Daughter Card smoke out due to the extra voltages.
 
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meanie

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M2X now sings beautifully with SLB, running +/-30.5Vdc rail.
Heatsink temp went up another 5 degC, currently stabilized at 56 degC.

I will bench set my USSA5 on bench first for these voltages before hooking up.
Will do a ps ripple check soon.

Thanks everyone whom make these possible.
 
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Vunce

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That’s why I was curious about your Mains voltage, is 235vac typical for your area or running a bit high? This will effect your transformer secondary voltage.

Depending on the season and time of the day my Mains voltage variation is between 114 - 125vac.
 
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meanie

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Hope the secondary voltages are still safe for the amps, if not i may have to go for custom winding of the trafo locally.

My initial thought was to build 2 monobloc SLB for USSA5. Looks like one SLB is more than enough for the USSA5, so now i change my mind, one go to M2X too.
 
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zman01

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meanie said:
Strangely my 500va trafo from RS Components output 26Vac no load, and it is actually a 24Vac written on its label. Is this normal?
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meanie,

Which model did you get from RS components?

As Vunce has already pointed out, your mains voltage is higher than typically what we see.

If you look at transformer specs, a lot of the are rated for 230V mains.

If you carefully look at output voltages assuming you have 24V secondaries, some transformers will specify "24V under full load" - so with less than full load, you will get higher voltages. So with zero load, you might get 25V-26V.
 
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meanie

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Today,I ran the other set of SLB with my existing trafo with was originally meant for the M2X.

I connected both 300VA 18Vac trafo in parallel, then fed into SLB.
Final voltage was +/-22.7vdc rail. Measured 616mV across the 0.47 resistor, so each Mosfet is pulling about 1.3A.

Strangely my M2X sounded sweeter than it was on +/- 30.5Vdc rail.
Will test out all my PS when i got more time.
a) CRC
b) CRCRC
c) SLB with 18Vac (2x300VA)
d) SLB with 24Vac single 500VA
 
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