• 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.

EZ81 x 2 in parallel

For all those whose time is too valuable to ponder OH Schade's tome covering rectifiers & filters. here it is summarized from RDH4.
When RDH4 first appeared I scraped the $$$ together to buy a copy. I've designed many PS & other circuits with help from the contents of that book.

RDH4 was reprinted by Newnes of the UK a while, so I bought that as well. If we look hard enough on the iNet the entire book is available in 42 PDFs.

Another must-have for any serious pretender of this art is Fred E Terman's Electrical & Electronic Engineering #4, McGraw-Hill Publishing.

Many books on Toob Engineering are available on the used market as Geezers like me expire.
Try Alibris.com, I've bought several out-of-print books there, some covering engineering. And a few on controversial subjects.
 

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I think 300mA with a pair of EZ81 and capacitor input is probably pushing it, you can do better with choke input. I had a pair of EICO HF-30 (IIRC model #) which used a pair of EZ81 in parallel and a quartet of EL84 in the output stage, idle current was 200mA total - I think that is a reasonable upper limit for a pair of EZ81
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