60 watt design...

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R4 keeps starting on fire? Then there is something really really bad there!
Is Q2 still alive?

Plase provide us some meaurements as Sakis asked.
What is your rail current consumption? What's your output DC offset?
Any oscillation?
What PCB design did u use?
Etc..
 
rtill said:
using this design.... http://www.redcircuits.com/Page65.htm

power supply transformer is the hammond 165P60

http://www.hammondmfg.com/165.htm

I'm wondering if the transformer is too much for this circuit....

Hi,

It looks to me as if this transformer secondary voltage is too high for this circuit, if I have read this info correctly.

To end up with around 60VDC for the suggested circuit requirements, when using a full-wave bridge rectifier arrangement like this, the transformer secondary should not be much higher than say 45V AC.

The transformer you specify has 2 x 30V AC secondaries (or 60V centre tapped) which will give you in the region of 80+V DC at the circuit.

In fact it doesn't look as if there is a suitable transformer in that range, unfortunately.

Regards,

P.S. Yes, I just noticed that the specs lower down on the schematic suggest 48 -50V secondaries.
 
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