Valve amp build, anyone interested??

Can you do a step by step instruction booklet?

I'd love to give this a go but got no idea where to start.

Just a taste of what it looks like now, its all done, and sounds very good may i just add! Once ive got all my work handed in i will write it up properly for those who are still interested, and those who arnt, tough!

By the looks of the circuit diagram, you've got an all class A amplifier, so the output power is going to be on the low side, hence the warm sound (plenty of distortion).

For anyone thinking of making something similar, do be careful, the output of the bridge rectifier is 400V (or there abouts) and a fair bit of charge will be stored in the capacitors.

MT

yep, its a single ended class A design, and it has voltages up to around 380V. output power is a mighty 4W, but it still managed to fill the house with lovely valvey goodness earlier in testing , would say its equal to that of a 15W solid state in terms of volume, and again yep lots of nice crunchy distortion.

Next challenge will be something with lots of high gain along the lines of a TSL if i can find the right schematic!

[Jayneflakes]

ooh ooh, wanna see more piccies of finished object... Perrrrrrrleeeeeeeeease?

I make electronic handbags. The last one was very cyber goth with a PIC powered Nightrider style red swoop. Ta Carla for making the program for me.

Good grief I never thought I would be looking at circuit diagram with valves in again
Good luck, I hated valves circuits as I was always getting "bit" by the HT. Ironically, 350V is worse that the 25kV I got off a few CRTs now and again, not that I recommend get zapped by either (we were always trained to work with one hand in our pockets so that we didn't create a circuit across our hearts to ground).