🚀 go-pugleaf

"Don Klipstein"

>  One thing to watch for:  RMS current being drawn from the transformer
> exceeding the DC output current.  The bigger the filter capacitor, the
> worse this gets.


** That last claim is   ABSOLUTE   BULLSHIT  !!!!

Nothing new for this ignorant, septic asshole to make them.


>  Assuming that you will be using an adjustable voltage regulator, you
> should be OK with a few volts of filter capacitor ripple, so don't make
> the filter capacitors too big.


** Make it as big as you like and the rms ripple current will not increase.


>  As for a filter capacitor value:  4 volts ripple at 4 amps over the
> approx. 6 milliseconds or so that the capacitor has to supply current
> works out to 6,000 microfarads.  I would not use more.  Greater filter
> capacitance makes the current waveform drawn from the transformer spikier,


** No it does not !!

The whole idea is an idiotic  MYTH  put about by complete fools like 
Klipstein.


> which makes the RMS current drawn from the transformer greater.  I might
> go for 4700 microfarads and only count on drawing 3-3.5 amps DC without
> overheating the transformer.


** 20,000 uF would be a good value to use -  cos increasing the filter 
capacitance above the minimum usable value has no effect on the rms current 
in the transformer windings.


......   Phil