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good enough reg for an E188CC IHT

Hi,


I'm looking for a small pcb for the 6.3V/375 mA of an E188CC filament.


As it's a good Philips tube, I would like something with a soft start inside the reg to get rid of the in rush current in the filament during the switch on - I use SS rectifier with a CRC.



I know there are quite simple scheme with a LM317 and transistor/cap for the soft start.


I eventually thought about the great Mark Johanson gerbers of the Lm317 + denoizytor, but don't know if slow start enough ? but as this tube is a low noise low microphonic, I assume a Lm317 alone could maybe a little be improved.



Hoping for advice for something simple and chip; verroboard also is not a problem is simple enough.


Many thanks for your thoughts