Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words
> A line filter as the one depicted in my ASCII graphics will in no way
> take away or otherwise influence the 100Hz line cycles! It will only
> prevent high-frequency disturbances from either side of the filter to
> pass to the other side of the filter. This kind of filter by
> definition cannot significantly influence the power consumption of the
> circuit.
>
> A high-voltage capacitor - which is not present in Declan's circuit -
> _after_ the full-way bridge rectifier would suppress (or at least
> smoothen) the 100Hz oscillations of the rectified mains voltage... But
> this would not be called a "mains filter".
That capacitor would remove the effect of the half/full power switch
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With best Regards,
Declan Moriarty.
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