The Plasmatron - more linear output voltage


From the website: "The Plasmatron provides a more linear voltage output."

Can someone explain why this would be beneficial as an ideal power supply is a sine wave? If it produced a sawtooth wave it could be more linear, but a sawtooth wave is what the cheapest transistors use.

A EE friend of mine is baffled by this claim. Can someone shed some light?
mceljo

Showing 1 response by kijanki

Negative differential resistance would be the better term, since it has to have some resistance in order to produce negative resistance change. Fluorescent tubes are also a negative resistance devices.

I cannot see how this device would help with gear that already has built in voltage regulators - pretty much any device other than power amps, but today many power amps have SMPS including half of class D amps and some class AB amps like the newest high power amps from Rowland. Perhaps resistance of this device have some filtering effect reducing power line noise.