Kemp Elektroniks - Power Station 75

After exhaustive preparation, the long-awaited Power Station is now available!

It started with the wish to improve the performance of the Power Source. There are three main problems with mains and the Power Source can solve two of them perfectly. It can filter DC-voltages as well as high frequency distortion from your mains. However the third problem - sine wave distortion - cannot be solved using a passive circuit. No line conditioner or isolation transformer can achieve this.

The mains is loaded at its peaks only, causing heavy distortion of the sine wave. This load on the mains causes the peaks of the sine wave to flatten, causing the sine wave to be permanently distorted.

The only solution to this problem is to create a new sine wave from scratch with a so called regenerator, which is exactly what the Power Station is! This means it rectifies the mains and uses the DC-voltages obtained to create a new AC-voltage.

The benefit of this method is that the new AC-voltage is a perfect sine wave which is independent of distortions on the mains. In contrast with competing designs, the sine wave generated is totally analog, so there are no remnants of digital synthesis. A Wienbridge oscillator is used as a base for the generation of a very clean sine wave.

Another unique property of the Power Station is the complete absence of any output transformer, this to prevent degradation of the excellent properties of the regenerator.