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You don't need expensive power supplies

You just need to understand where the hum is coming from, and its a simple fact that many people working with DIY OTLs have not sorted that out!

Here are some fundamentals:

  • You don't need DC filaments but you do need to watch out for electrostatic noise, but that is true of any amplifier

  • Its OK to have a sawtooth waveform in the power supply, so long as it is canceled out in some way. I've built amps with no filter caps in the output section that hardly hum at all!

  • Grounding the amplifier to the AC line *correctly* is important

  • the most important thing is snub your rectifiers!!



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