What to do with a 300VA 2x38Vac transformer?

[Huey]

I just purchased a 300VA 2X38Vac Plitron Transformer from a friend. He had purchased it for a junior design project but got one that puts out a bit more voltage then he wanted (forgot about the square root of two...). Now he didn't want it so I took it off his hands.

Any suggestions for the sort of power supply / amplifier combination that would be best for this transformer? For the DIY amps I've been looked at (Zen4, Gainclone, ect) they want a transformer with quite a bit less then 38V, hopefully someone has a suggestion for me to get the most out of the transformer or at least build something that's decent.

I'm going to be combining the amp with a pair of AudioReview DIY speakers

Thanks for the input

 

[MBK]

Check, it may have dual primaries, then you can use the primaries in series and get 2x19V.

MBK

 

[JojoD818]

Build an amp and see how it sounds. You have to look for a suitable design to use that trafo though. 🙂

Jojo

 

[pinkmouse]

Huey

You might be able to get away with an ESP P3a, have a look at this thread, a guy there has one running at up to 63V rails, higher than your traffo would provide😉

 

[Huey]

The 'traffo' (sorry didn't know the slang for it 😉 ) does have dual secondaries, the schematics at Plitron threw me off since it only shows it in series hooked up to 230V.

I'll also take a look at that P3A amp, thanks for the input!

Likely I'll be using it in series, so the schematic on the right but just 115 across the traffo.

 

[Huey]

An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.

There's the schematic that was suppose to be above.