The simplistic Salas low voltage shunt regulator

[jackinnj]

Originally Posted by Salas

You wrote you built on proto-board so if you need high current you can add a 4th easily I thought.

but the BIB boards look so much nicer!!!

[Salas]

They are OK with 3 LEDS for most uses. Vishay Mosfets show less Vgs even. Depends on batches. One stronger LED in the triplet can give headroom if Vgs is nearing when setting CCS high etc. What you will use it for? Will be symmetrical?

[df_genius]

Originally Posted by Salas

If you will talk in circuit terms maybe I can help, bcs I am not familiar with the designations on those PCBs. Is L4 a sole LED in the Vout reference path? Maybe its inserted wrong polarity, or the JFET powering the ref system is dead. Are there any ''sense'' eyelets? If not sorted to the main lines on board or not extended to meet those at the load, the reference and error amp system are floating powerless.

Hi, Yes the L4 LED is the single on in the Vout ref path. The sense links are shorted. It's a bit stange that they both have the same problem. Note Q1 and Q6 are mounted under the PCB's so the case is used as a heat-sink (mica pads used)

[jackinnj]

Originally Posted by Salas

They are OK with 3 LEDS for most uses. Vishay Mosfets show less Vgs even. Depends on batches. One stronger LED in the triplet can give headroom if Vgs is nearing when setting CCS high etc. What you will use it for? Will be symmetrical?

Yes, they will be symmetrical.

I had to select the LEDs -- the Vgs was too high with one batch.

While I'm on the 2nd GB list, seems that the board specifies K170 but the article uses K117 selected for 3 to 5mA Idss. I'm using K117 and IRF9610,IRF9530 per the article.

[Salas]

No, K117 is correct for BIB 1.1. You can see them to the left of C304 in the picture of a proto 43V test assembly by Tea. Q302 is K117 also.

[Salas]

Originally Posted by df_genius

Hi, Yes the L4 LED is the single on in the Vout ref path. The sense links are shorted. It's a bit stange that they both have the same problem. Note Q1 and Q6 are mounted under the PCB's so the case is used as a heat-sink (mica pads used)

Check L4 for correct orientation. Are the 9540s oriented correctly for GDS? They need nylon washers too. No short of their tabs to chassis.

[df_genius]

Thanks again Salas, I did indeed have a short to the casework. I have fixed that now, but realise I have used GR and not BL grade 2SK170's, and can't get the Vout as high as I will need it for my Low MC Simplistic phono (40-45V). One of the boards will produce 20V and the other 33V max. Do I need to change the vref, some of the Jfets or something else? I am waiting on some BL's for my phono section, but I built these reg boards some time ago.

[Salas]

Use both K170BL ~7mA and 10K trimmers. The FET to change is the one next to the trimmer on each section most possibly. Power up with the trimmers half way up, then adjust. Good luck, and don't forget to tell us about the phono in its thread when finished.

[RCruz]

My latest contraption:

Double secondary winding TX - Double rectifiers - Two positive SSLV1, resulting in a +15v / 0 / -15v setup.

Successfully powering the buffers in my new preamp.

PS: As I had no Hexfred or Stealth diodes available, I used some ultra fast ones bypassed with smal wimas in the rectfier bridge.

The smoothers are nichicon and I use BG FK in the buffers PCB as decouling caps instead of the original regulators.

I believe major gains can be obtained by upgrading to SSLV12R and removing the FK.

[Tubenstein]

Salas,
For this circuit: Welborne Labs CATO Vacuumt Tube Linestage

1) How many low voltage regulator for each channel?

2) We need to source the power transformer for this project, to play safe, what is the AC voltage on secondary winding before feeding your low voltage regulator? How much drop from the regulator for +/-24V?

Thanks again!