dual power supply design

Sound like you need to make say +/-5V rails and hang a power opamp between them that can source/sink 200mA. Voltage control or current control can be had.

As always, you need to state what you are starting with, and your specific goal. Yes, most things are possible, but the means to the end depends on the specifics.

Maybe give this a try lad

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1) Find a design for a power supply of around four to five volts. With a centre tap. 2) And there are other circuits that can be arranged from a transformer without a centre tap that can also provide plus and minus supplies from the same winding. With a 'virtual' centre tap or zero voltage point. 3) A pot placed across the two outputs can be adjusted to anywhere from plus 2 to to minus 2 volts; relative to the centre tap of item (1) or the created zero of item (2). 4) For two separate outputs use two separate pots arranged thus. As a guess you prob. need power supplies providing an amp or more and then 'sink' some of it in the pots. Depending on whether the 200 m/a is a steady or varying load? All depends what you are trying design/do!

How much of a consideration is efficiency, and what power does it need to run on? Does it produce +2V and -2V at the same time, or do you need to swing it end to end?

If it's AC, I'd use a transformer to reduce line power to about 10V peak to peak, center tapped, to ground, rectify it on both sides to get

+5V and -5V, filter to get the ripple down to under a volt and then use a power op-amp with variable gain off a voltage reference to get the output voltage.

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