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Miu.miu,

That looks very nice!
Is that a current source plate load; plus a coupling cap and a non air gapped output transformer?

As always, posting a schematic is appreciated.

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Thank you 6A3sUMMER, yes you're right it's ccs ( mu follower? ) plate load. Output transformer is from 12V to 220V power inverter's battery charger. Here it's schematic

 

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Hi, here my first finished tube power amplifier, parallel single ended with active loaded output stage

Hi, here my first finished tube power amplifier, parallel single ended with active loaded output stage
Great works. Your layout and how to solder the components together point to point are neat work. Fantastic, and this is one of the most beautiful works I've seen! Congratulations!!
 
An interesting night-time view of my double quad 6550 2x115W amp. A couple of tubes nicely have a very strong flourescent blue on the inner envelope, why don´t the others show the same when all tubes are well matched ? trace impurities ?

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Could you have been playing some music at the time and the exposure randomly caught it on a high peak of a half-cycle? I ask because I have seen this on some modified MI-12188A amplifiers when square wave testing at 10Hz. Alternate pairs of 807s would give the glass glow and it was very pretty to see it flicker back and forth.