[Milsurplus] WTB Manuals and Power Supply Question

[Unserviceable but Repairable]

> Capacitors work on voltage, chokes work on current.

Well, sorta.

Smoothing chokes have a gap so L same over wide range.

Swinging chokes have no gap & their L goes from hi to low as current
gets near max.

The bleeder R of a LC-filtered power supply with smoothing choke 
ought to place that choke up into "flat line."

And that's just a few ma on a 200ma choke

My 2 ct.s

   Marty


...and the C oughta be picked to deliver load V within ripple-limits
   between rectifier pulses.

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