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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Central Ohio
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I have a matched pair of NOS Triad power transformers that are 550-0-550@250mA and 5V@4A. Is there some simple way to safely reduce that output to the neighborhood of 400-0-400?
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Minnesota
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You can't easily reduce the secondary voltage of the transformer, but depending on the load current, you may add a resistor to the secondary of the circuit that will drop the voltage to the level you want.
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Join Date: May 2009
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Hi !
This resistors to drop voltage shoud be huge .You need 150 V drop , and 250 mA , it is a lot of power and temperature - 37,5 W per each branch . Make sure so you have proper cooling . Resistor should have 600 ohm , if of course you need this 250 ma . How much of current You need to provide for application powered by this tran ? Values of this transformer are telling me it's a power supply for tube amp , and I not reccomend any such big resistor reductions in main supply voltage because of voltage swing which depends from anode and other changing currents . Power supp should not to swing voltages . Revinding this tran is a better solution , I think . ![]() |
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Minnesota
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I know the transformer is rated at 250 mA, but if he only needs a few mA, then a dropping resistor will be fine. As you stated, it would not be reasonable to drop 150 volts at 250 mA.
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Tyrone Ga. U.S.A.
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Will you be using the 5v winding? If not you could use a 30 to 36v
transformer to "buck" your line voltage. But your 5v will also be reduced to about 3.8v.... but if you only needed 5v at 2A you could send the 3.8v through a schottky rectifier bridge and cap to get ~4.8v |
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what abt a capacitor in series with primary winding ?
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Join Date: Mar 2007
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"Fully on MOSFET = closed switch, Fully off MOSFET = open switch, Half on MOSFET = poor imitation of Tiffany Yep." - also applies to IGBTs! |
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#8 |
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Central Ohio
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Thanks for the replies. I am building Millett UniAmp monoblocks, which the 800VCT is recommended for. I'm buying some Edcors of the appropriate specs, but plan to build more UniAmps in the future, so that was why I was curious about this.
Thanks again, Greg |
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