HV Shunt Regulator PCB
 

This project had been on the back burner for some time. It is a very sophisticated High Voltage Shunt regulator PCB. I think it is an original Allen Wright's design. It can be use with an external power tube or as stand-alone. I made my own PCB using his schematic and parts list. I found the original documentation on the net, but it seems to be gone now. It took me some time to collect all the parts but I found them.

Been on the road again, I found some time to complete the PCB.

I'm planning to use it into my upcoming EAR824P Phono preamp clone.
I have two complete PCB completed. Just need to test it now.

Since it is not my design, and it is a brand new project I cannot answer any question on this circuit. I need to work on it first.

The manual
http://basenjes.de/tubes/data/sb/Shu...SB%20Notes.pdf

This is the top view.

And the PCB bottom view.

My own parts list.

And my PCB parts silkscreen.

what about the schematic?

TIA,

I forgot :cannotbe:... Here it is.

Regulator
 

Just looking at the schematic, that's not Allen Wright's design - it is in fact Emile Sprenger's HPHV regulator, which is a very well-designed shunt regulator with a similar overall architecture to Allen's SuperReg. I use a couple in my RTP3C preamp, as well as in the active crossover I am in the middle of building right now.

Alex

Thanks for the precision. I was looking for the original designer, but I couldn't find the original website.

Hi Alga_emi

The original manual says
DUE TO THE SPECIAL (DUAL) POWER PINS/CONNECTIONS OF THE OPA655P, DO NOT SUBSITITUTE THIS DEVICE WITH ANOTHER OPAMP.
Did you adjust the design for opa656u as in your BOM? I wanted to build this shunt regular for the longest time but had no chance to locate the ops655p.

Thanks!!

In my latest builds of the HPHV I used AD9631 instead of OPA655. These are high-performance op-amps with standard single power connections, and - more crucially - there is no facility for external compensatin or offset nulling, so pins 1 and 8 are not connected internally. I haven't tested my regulators with an oscilloscope, so I can't rule out ultrasonic problems, but they appear to be working fine.

Alex