Ok Todd, I get it. I need to be careful of delayed referencing.

I am in my 70s now, but this is a model of an amateur radio power supply I built from an article in a Amateur radio magazine back in 1957. It had 2 866a Mercury vapor rectifier tubes. I got rather severely shocked, when as I was measuring the output voltage with a vacuum tube voltmeter. I was pulling the grounded aluminum chassis closer to me with my left hand, while holding the voltmeter probe tip on the supply output with my right hand. Unknown to me, the set screw holding the coaxial cable in to the probe tube had been screwed down too tight, and was in contact with the coax center conductor going to the probe tip.. My left hand was on ground, and my right was gripping the probe and the set screw. I woke up across the room, on the other side of the bed. My back muscles hurt for about 8 months. They were part of the current flow. Always use only 1 hand when working with high voltage. So I became an Electrical Engineer. This model seems to work on low semiconductor voltages also. The filter capacitors are much larger, and a bleeder resistor is not needed.

Kent

Oh good grief. I changed the := to = on the variable "BleederDischTime", and the problem went away. I have been having all kinds of problems with = vs := . I initially thought that if the value of a variable was going to change, such as in a loop, that just = made it work := caused something recursive to happen. Sometimes changing it made it worse. Anyway thanks for the tip. I just decided to try on the affected variable, and it works.

Sincerly, Kent