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Re: placement of a standby switch

12/28/1999 1:21 AM
Benjamin Fargen	Re: placement of a standby switch Ricky, Just to be safe I would go ahead and put it after the first PS cap.......just make sure your first filter cap is rated above the full B+ voltage with no load on it! Besides the arching.....you can sometimes get weird noise artifacts for a couple of seconds when dropping all that B+ voltage on the first filter cap. Better to go with the safer design. Benjamin

12/28/1999 1:21 AM

Benjamin Fargen

Re: placement of a standby switch

Ricky,

Just to be safe I would go ahead and put it after the first PS cap.......just make sure your first filter cap is rated above the full B+ voltage with no load on it!

Besides the arching.....you can sometimes get weird noise artifacts for a couple of seconds when dropping all that B+ voltage on the first filter cap.

Better to go with the safer design.

Benjamin