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BA-3B Monos with 24 output devices each in Picos toxic masculinity chassis. Yes I could have gone with a little less and yes I will need a beefy soft-start - but this transfomer just fits the chassis in terms of toxic masculinity really well. Also the price difference to 1kVA was negligible. I will post some pictures when finished. :D
 
Antek AS-3222

Cx 0.01uf
Cs 0.15uf
Rs 15r, though repeated measurements with a v4 Quasimodo showed that any value within 9 and 19r would do the trick. Tested both secondaries and results were within 2r.
See oscilloscope photos at Simple, no-math transformer snubber using Quasimodo test-jig

After doing a thread search for Antek, I noticed several others have posted similar results for the same manufacturer at various voltages and transformer VA. I hope that is confirmation of our tool's accuracy, and perhaps also, of Antek's build consistency.

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VA:300
Pri: 2x115 VAC
Sec: 2x18 VAC

Cx 10nF
Cs 150nF
Rs 17Ω


Wow, I just measured the same one yesterday for the F1 build I'm doing. I dropped some fixed resistors in to show my results.
 

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Breve Tufvassons 230V/2x14V, 200VA (manuf.no. TTS200/Z230/14-14V)

Parallel secondary
Cx 4.7nF
Cs 100nF
Rs 10Ω

Series secondary
Cx 4.7nF
Cs 100nF
Rs 22Ω

I couldn't see much (if any) difference by adjusting Cs. Cx 4.7nF was what I had available. I think it is good that Cx is a high voltage capacitor due to turn-on transients (especially for tube amps a ceramic 2kV cap is probably not wasted).
 
As Sixto mentioned above, there's a range of resistance that works okay so the different versions of the 300va Torroidy transformers will most probably lie within that range and you can just experiment to see if there's much difference in the 'sound' with different snubber resistors, or just start with a middle value and go from there.

It is really satisfying to use the 'ideal' value (the perfectionist in many of us) but in this case it isn't so critical and much better to just add these simple filters and 'fiddle' with that resistor.