Weber WPDLXFMR-1 9vac winding question

Started by jmasciswannabe, May 29, 2012, 11:18:08 PM

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jmasciswannabe

Been thinking about getting one of these to build my own power supply. I like the fact that the there are several 9v isolated windings, but am at a loos on what to do with the 9vac 2amp winding. I've got a couple pedals that run at 9vdc and take lots of ma, (Timebender and converted nanoverb) and if it were 9vdc, well that would rock. Anyway, I am assuming to convert that winding to DC you would lose some volts, and to regulate it you need a couple extra...but what if I converted, used a voltage doubler and then a regulator? What effect does this have on the 2A?

Searched the forum and google to see if anyone has done something like this before but turned up nothing. Got a good read on the power supply article by R.G though.


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Fender3D

Maybe we're not talking about the same Weber Transformer, but WPD... has 8 x 11VAC @ 300mA outputs and 1 9VAC @ 2A.
When you'll rectify VAC you'll have ~1.4 x VDC then ~15,4VDC for each 11VAC output and ~12.6VDC for the 9VAC out, enough to be regulated with a LM317.
Your only concern will be regulating VDC @ 2A, then you'll need some power regulator (1.5A max, for LM317)
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jmasciswannabe

No, that's the one! Here it is for others to check out:
http://taweber.powweb.com/store/pdlxfmr.gif

I am completely ignorant here. I'm just going to write my thoughts and hopefully someone knowledgable will correct me. So we basically have 8 11vac 300ma windings and 1 9vac 2a winding. And that is straight out of the transformer.

Starting with the 8 11vac 300ma windings, I know they need to go through the diode bridge a couple caps and a voltage regulator as seen here:
http://www.geofex.com/Article_Folders/Spyder/spyder.htm

I am planning on using a bridge rectifier that has a 1.1v forward voltage drop. I am going to go with the recommended 220uf capacitor after the bridge. At that point what would be the voltage out? I know the first half of the formula is Vout= (11x1.414) - (2 x 1.1) which equals 13.354, but not sure about the second half which is (Iload+(8ms)/(2+C)....if anyone could fill that in, that would be very helpful. And do I assume correctly that after the bridge rectifier the AC is converted to DC?

Also, in order to maintain the 300ma of the windings (is that 300ma each winding?) do I need to use a voltage regulator that is capable of more than .1a current output? I see many of the ones used in various projects on google are rated at the .1a output.
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jmasciswannabe

Friendly weekend bump :)

Still wondering about how the rectifier, regualtor and doubler would interact with the 2a rating of that 9vac widning. I've found a regulator capable of handling the 2a but not a voltage doubler.
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jmasciswannabe

It just occurred to me to check the timebender and nanoverb power supplies. All this time I thought they were running on DC, but no.....they are AC!!

Is it "safe" to run this winding straight to the pedals (I'll more than likely daisy chain) or should I implement some kind of regulating circuit?
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