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Poor mans 845PP by Benny & Stephan & David This project is finished but supplied without chassis ( the pictured chassis is Davids design and the cabling is really crazy ) as you all have noticed this project developed following the SE 845 Outer Limit and follows some of the footsteps and philosophy so we can get a state of the art design keeping a close budget in mind .David owned a Jadis PP EL34 amp and got exicted by the Outerlimit , since he didn’t have the budget for that and wanted the power and sound of an 845 tube something had to be done , I was working on my Outerlimit monoblok 845pp and suggested we use that as a base for his amp , the 2A3 drivers are substituted for 6BL7 , the high voltage was lowered for the 845 as this offers lots of practical advantages , cheaper powersupply and easier to drive the outputtubes .many things omitted like current sources , vapor mercury rectifier tubes , paper in oil caps ect .but we did use an interstage for driving the outputstage ., and a long tail phase splitter as the input stage with a negative voltage for optimum performance . Many top quality parts everywhere where needed . As usual first simple discussion of basic philosophy . 1 What are we aiming to get ? 2 How much power we want ? 3 How high end should this be ? 4 Aesthetic design criteria ? 5 Budget ? Basically those are common questions , as usual the answers make the difference because many contradictions can co-exist in one sentence or life or a project . The answers . 1 A beautiful and powerfull amplifier that has killer looks and is compact as well . 2 Well enough of that whimpy SE stuff , 845 is the choice ,especially in PP from pure class A to class B you can vary output power from 50watts to 200watts . 3 Well offcourse as good as possible given the budget , it should be excellent, PP has several advantages that SE doesn’t have and the interstage design eliminates coupling capacitors . 4 Small !!! if that is possible ? , lots of chrome look 5 As cheap as possible , while keeping a very high standard , Our minimum standard is quite high , why bother making mediocre stuff , why spend all the hours ? The circuit V1.0 As described , input stage is a classic log tail phase splitter , since we benefit from having high voltages we can load the tubes optimally , then we are capacitor coupled to the 2nd stage which is a mini PP amplifier , it dumps its power into the interstage , which is used to drive the 845pp stage , this eliminates the need for capacitors , too many coupling caps seem to reduce the soundstage , an interstage here and there solves the problem . the 6BL7 is a very rugged tube that accepts a max working voltage of 550vdc . It is also enough powerfull to drive the 845 in positive grid bias territory . Again negative bias is the way to go , and this for all stages , I just can’t understand why people bother with autobias , it is acceptable in guitar amplifiers but in high end ? Powersupply : diode rectified , capacitor filtered then choke filtered for each channel and again capaitor filtered , the high voltage is triac controlled for a simple switch on delay . then we use the 2x 35volt windings into a voltage doubler to obtain the 200volts of negative bias zener regulated that serves also for the long tail ( tube sees a current source this way from its cathode to gnd ) and a transistor bias adjustment for each tube . Final note : The chassis looks great but David chose the layout in function of optical beauty , and not in logic of cabling , so this is a real mess , but Stephane cabled most of it and I take my hat off for his patience , I wouldn’t want to go hunting for a screw in that amp !!!!! greetings to all , Benny & Stephane & David ( very happy owner of a fantastic amp )