Edward Bartolo: ... > For voltage rectification Power Factor Correction (PFC) is not an > issue. ...
For ac input, diodes gives you awful ac input currents, see e.g fig. 2 in: http://www.vishay.com/docs/88868/anpfc.pdf which is (somewhat) corrected by PFC. It has nothing to do with a switch mode power supply per se, the problem is in the rectifier. Any further questions will answered off-list. Regards, /Karl Hammar ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Aspö Data Lilla Aspö 148 S-742 94 Östhammar Sweden +46 173 140 57 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng