Patent ID: 8730689

Claim:
A capacitive power supply comprising: first and second input terminals for connecting to an AC-mains supply; a rectification section; first and second output terminals for providing output voltage to a load; a first resistive element forming inrush current limiting facility configured to limit an inrush current and to directly couple to the first input terminal; a first capacitive element forming a capacitive coupling coupled in series to the inrush current limiting facility and the rectification section; a second resistive element forming a discharge facility coupled in parallel with the first capacitive element for discharging the first capacitive element to prevent an electric shock when the power supply is disconnected from the AC-mains supply; a second capacitive element forming a charge storage having an internal series resistance coupled in parallel with the rectification section; and a chain coupled in parallel to the charge storage and including a diode forming an output voltage limiting facility connected between the first and second output terminals to reduce dissipation losses of the inrush current limiting facility an to limit output voltage and third resistive element forming a DC-conducting series impedance having a resistive component with a resistive value of at least 0.2 times a resistance value of the internal series resistance.