[ARC5] More on receiver current drain.

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

Well, Mouser got my Zeners to me today.

Paired up one 120 V and one 130 V and hung them across the output. Total 
current drain at 250 VDC output was 13 mA and voltage dropped was 69 
volts.

The output voltage started slowly climbing past 250 VDC, and kept going, 
while the Zeners got too hot to touch within a few minutes.

Total power dissipated in 10 watts worth of Zeners was less than 1 watt 
(0.897).

The only thing I suspect is that one of the two diodes in the rectifier is bad...

:-(

Ken W7EKB