• WARNING: Tube/Valve amplifiers use potentially LETHAL HIGH VOLTAGES.
    Building, troubleshooting and testing of these amplifiers should only be
    performed by someone who is thoroughly familiar with
    the safety precautions around high voltages.

HV using zener diode

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Use 1 watt zeners strung together to provide source voltage to a High Voltage Darlington. Don't for get the reverse bias diode on the emitter. Any capacitance after the regulator will fry the emitter base junction.

There's a way to do it with a mosfet but they came after I learned to design Darlingtons. So I'm too stupid to learn mosfet regulators. I think they are easier. But a Darlington array works peachy.
 
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