Recommendations for single ended guitar amp build

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You need to drop a loooot of voltage to bring the HV to el84 levels (320 MAX but for single ended applications more likely 250-280)
Only way I see it happening (other than big resistors), is with a choke input supply.
Do you have an Output transformer?
 
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Power supply filter arrangement.

A typical basic power supply will have a rectifier feeding to a filter cap. Then from there usually we find either a resistor or an inductor (choke) to the next filter cap. Cap, resistor, inductor - those are what the C R and L stand for.

CRC means cap through resistor to cap. CLC means same thing except a choke instead of resistor - cap choke cap. L is the symbol for inductors.

For reasons you can look up (capacitor input filter versus inductor input filter) if the rectifier feeds to a cap first, the resulting voltage will be higher than if it feeds an inductor before it gets to a cap. Choke input filters are relatively uncommon in guitar amps. But going to that instead of a cap input filter is one way to lower the supply voltage simply.
 
Hi,

The first component in a single ended power supply is critical. A correct
inductor will average the the incoming AC half wave voltage, a capacitor
will store the peak of the voltage. As such they will have very different
output voltage and that seems to be the original posts question.

The difference is about 0.7, 320V versus 225V.

rgds, sreten.
 
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