Sujet : PSU Ripple Update
De : cd (at) *nospam* notformail.com (Cursitor Doom)
Groupes : sci.electronics.repair sci.electronics.designDate : 17. Mar 2024, 19:48:07
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Gentlemen (and others)
I only get a few spare minutes a week to look into this, hence this
update. Hopefully my latest finding might ring a bell for some of you
and assist in pinpointing the fault with this (linear) PSU.
So, I've carried out a few more tests and discovered that there is a
total absence of ripple on the storage caps when all the downstream
circuitry has been disconnected. So it's totally fine with no load.
However, as I re-connect all those downstream circuits, the ripple
commences and the more connectors I re-attach, the worse it gets. This
is a screen shot showing over a volt of ripple at only about 66% of
the full supply voltage applied:
https://disk.yandex.com/i/vgxfpXgNp-F4YgNow I did check to see if there was anything downstream which had
shorted or gone low-resistance which could possibly account for this,
but found nothing amiss. So the question is:
What could cause ripple to arise when even very light loads are
applied to the output of a pretty substantial linear PSU?
BTW, the bridge rectifiers were fine and have been exonerated from any
culpability in this fault.