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    Output transformerless (OTL) is a type of vacuum tube audio power amplifier, which omits an output transformer for the purpose of greater linearity and...
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  • amplifiers. Julius Futterman pioneered a type of amplifier known as "output transformerless" (OTL). These use paralleled valves to match with speaker impedances...
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    Vacuum tube push–pull amplifiers usually use an output transformer, although Output-transformerless (OTL) tube stages exist (such as the SEPP/SRPP and...
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  • adapted to operate without output transformers, and present-day commercially produced circlotron models are of output transformerless (OTL) type. The Circlotron...
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  • of softball played mostly in Southern California Over time limit Output transformerless, a vacuum tube amplifier topology Outside the Lines, an American...
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    in transformer circuits. Notable exceptions are various "OTL" (output-transformerless) tube amplifiers, pioneered by Julius Futterman in the 1950s, or...
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    switching stages to reduce line interference. A capacitive power supply (transformerless power supply) uses the reactance of a capacitor to reduce the mains...
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    high-frequency and then back to DC and then to the final AC output voltage suitable for the grid. Transformerless inverters, which are popular in Europe, are lighter...
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  • cost-effective. A bridge-tied load (BTL), also known as bridged transformerless and bridged mono, is an output configuration for audio amplifiers, a form of impedance...
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    high-voltage amplifier with transformerless output. A general-purpose amplifier with typical low-impedance output is used. Its output is connected to the primary...
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    operate in class A. In a transformerless output stage, the devices are essentially in series with the power supply and output load (such as a loudspeaker)...
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    designed for series voltage regulator applications, now popular for output transformerless audio amplifiers; premium version of 6AS7 6082 – Ruggedized, indirectly...
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    related to Capacitive power supply. Transformerless Power Supplies: Resistive and Capacitive - Microchip Transformerless Power Supply Design - Designer Circuits...
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    of 110–117V. An extra dropper resistor was therefore not required. Transformerless designs had a metal chassis connected to one side of the power line...
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    known as duty cycle). In contrast, a linear power supply regulates the output voltage by continually dissipating power in the pass transistor. The switched-mode...
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    peak-to-peak output of a solid-state transformerless amplifier is limited by the power supply voltage. An amplifier may have an asymmetrical output swing and...
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    millions of All American Five AM radio receivers. Most of these used a transformerless power supply circuit. In American radio receivers with transformer...
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    microphones with balanced outputs but no output transformer, starting with the model TLM 170. Eventually this "fet 100" or "transformerless" series was expanded...
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    microwave ovens. Before the introduction of semiconductor electronics, transformerless vacuum tube receivers powered directly from AC power sometimes used...
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  • in the output transformer); low damping factor (High Z out) output stages; the use of very large amounts of feedback in signal transformerless semiconductor...
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    load for the microphone being reduced below the impedance of either. [Transformerless] capacitor and active-dynamic mics won't have a problem at all [but]...
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    back to DC and then to the final AC output voltage. Historically, there have been concerns about having transformerless electrical systems feed into the...
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    the design was to eliminate the mains transformer. The lower cost of transformerless designs remained popular with manufacturers long after DC power distribution...
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  • since 1973, as well as some models from even earlier, have featured transformerless output circuitry. Though a lesser-known brand in the Americas, Schoeps...
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    required by the tubes' plates and other electrodes. One approach used in transformerless line-operated radio and television receivers such as the All American...
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    powering often require much more current (e.g., 2–4 mA for Neumann transformerless microphones, 4–5 mA for the Schoeps CMC ("Colette") series and Josephson...
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  • custom hand-wired 8-channel split-console desk with transformerless balanced inputs and outputs - was installed at Morgan Studios. Morgan Studios initially...
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  • Canada. Unlike its competitors, Soundstream's analog circuitry was transformerless, permitting a frequency response to 0Hz (DC). This accounted for the...
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    and catenary systems were combined into a transformerless system, that utilized the same voltage from output of generator to catenary to locomotive pantograph...
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  • Electrodynamic Loud-Speaker (Improved Version) 2,539,672 1951 Transformerless Audio Output System (Tube Amplifier) 2,548,235 1951 Means For Improving The...
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