Posted by Wayne Parham [ 65.69.121.77 ] on February 04, 2005 at 18:57:17:

While building the Stoetkit, I noticed that it uses 1N400x rectifiers. All of the signal capacitors are nice, and the transformers are great. But the power supply uses electrolytics and plain ol' 1N400x diodes. So I think maybe I could probably improve some there, just with component substitutions.

We've had discussions on this forum about fast recovery diodes, FREDs and HEXFREDs and also about Schottky diodes. I'm thinking one of my first upgrades will be to improve the rectifiers, but I'm wondering which to go with. I'll probably grab some datasheets and give this some thought, and I'd also like to hear your experiences.

Replies:

• Re: Power supply rectifiers - Poindexter 21:45:47 02/19/05 (3)
  • Re: Power supply rectifiers - Wayne Parham 05:06:09 02/20/05 (2)
    • Re: Power supply rectifiers - Poindexter 19:21:09 02/20/05 (1)
      • Re: Power supply rectifiers - Wayne Parham 09:29:40 02/21/05 (0)
• Re: Try a Snubber Filter, too... - TubeCraft 11:50:28 02/06/05 (4)
  • Re: So much for my attempt at ASCII.... - TubeCraft 11:52:06 02/06/05 (3)
    • I gotcha - Wayne Parham 12:50:35 02/06/05 (2)
      • I gotcha - Tnuctipun 17:38:49 02/06/05 (1)
        • Re: I gotcha - Wayne Parham 18:53:08 03/20/05 (0)
• Re: Power supply rectifiers - BillEpstein 07:23:46 02/06/05 (0)
• SiC Schottky by Cree - Tnuctipun 21:26:14 02/05/05 (0)
• Re: Power supply rectifiers - manualblock 07:23:33 02/05/05 (0)