Yesterday I did some minor repairs to a friend's amp - resoldering
joints on the current sensing resistor. Looking at the circuits
later I noticed that the main supply voltage is regulated by
having SCRs in place of diodes rectifying the transformer
secondary and the main smoothing capacitor is 47000uF.
My friend tells me the amp runs over 40A at full tilt, which means
something like 8.5V ripple on the supply (7V at 60Hz). That
strikes me as quite high and I'd expect to see some difference in
amplifier gain/output if I was running such an amp off a regulated
supply and altered the voltage that much. Has anyone measured one?
Is any 100/120Hz audible on a carrier?
Steve
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