Kicking myself for missing the GE Tube Power supply.

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Frigin dual 500v and I missed it.

I wanted this so bad, but yesterday my 4 year old woke up crying of inner ear pain. With all the running around, getting him taken care of, I totaly forgot about this Tube Power Supply ending last night.
I was ready to snipe bid, at 3 times what it went for. That's how bad I wanted it.

Dual 500v.
It was a tank compared to the others I've seen.

AAAARRRRGGGHHHH!
This worse than the time I lost the Yellow Fin Tuna, or the Tarpon combined.


I wanted to learn from it, and make something similiar one day (an ultimate Guitar tube amp building design station/powersupply box with a Perf Bread board on top, and place to mount diffrent OTs, with the primary terminals right there for easy hook up., but with a JTM 3" and and/or a SVT PT with KT66 and/or KT88,and/or EL34, instead of those 807s, and switchable to tube or Diode recitfired.


Mabye even use what I learn from it, to build a Marshall with a Variable plate Volatage on a dial. Instead of 400/500 switch, a 400 to 550 dial.
For everything you'd need form Variaced 12000 series Plexi to JTM 45/100.


I figured the GE would have gone over $300, it did b4.
I was curious if you could set both B+s in series, and if they would add.
If so; 280dc a side, for a 560V JTM 45/100, or whatevers needed to even try even SVT levels, for that Steel String Singer Project I dream about.
If so, at 280 a side, this thing wouldn't be working hard at all.

I fugured I could have a place to mount an OT and use some perf as my little bread board, almost like one of those power supplies I used to use in elctronics school back in the 80s, but only for vaccum tube stuff.

There's other Tube Power supplies based on the 807 tube design, (I passed up a vintage Fluke Recently waiting for this, that Fluke was half of this), and then there's the ps3 heath Kit Tube Power Supply. It goes to 500v, but I'm not sure it it has bias supply, then there's the ps-4 and it has every thing, but only goes to 400v.

What if I built a PS-4 with a 3" JTM 45/100 PT? This was what I was thinking about, until I saw this.

One of these day I will have my ultimate tube amp designing station, but it's not meant to be today.