choosing a bleed resistor

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looking at PCB art work
http://electronics-diy.com/soft-star...wer-supply.php
it looks like its a project take from the Dutch: Elektuur magazine

John

PS

found it
the delay is from the July August 1997 issue of Elektor



the B250C1500 is a 1.5A 500V bridge rectifier
I would of thought a 1A bridge rectifier would be OK
or four 1N4007 diodes

So the guy stole it and put his own copyright message on it... I have my book shelves full of old books and magazines, even several years of Elektor (which I think is German from the beginning) but googling is faster than going through all of those.

Anyway, good detective work.

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If you put in a DPCO relay you could use it to drop in a bleed resistor when the power is removed, after all this is what this thread started out as

If bleeding is what you want, I still think a simple LED and a 5k resistor after the rectifier is the way to go. It will provide power on/off indication and also drain the capacitor when you power off.