JB>     What's this one called?
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RS>  A waste of a capacitor? 

RJT>  I've often wondered about that.  Amps with split supplies like
RJT> that which have two capactors in series like that are effectively
RJT> getting half the capacitance value,  with them in series like that.
RJT> Why not use one big ca across the whole thing?

 Actually, there should be one proper value of
capacitor (based on the rest of the PS design)
that is most effective for removing 60 Hz,
which is what the "filtering" is all about. It
may not be "the largest capacitor you can find".

 TTYL.

 Robert

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