{"id":9989,"date":"2021-08-20T14:09:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T13:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/?p=9989"},"modified":"2021-08-20T14:09:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T13:09:12","slug":"ef86-300b-xls-se-amplifier-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/2021\/08\/20\/ef86-300b-xls-se-amplifier-build\/","title":{"rendered":"EF86 &#8211; 300B XLS SE Amplifier build"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a very nice build from Dan Kercher on his contraption of the 300B amplifier with auto bias. The driver is an EF86 with SiC diode biasing, the topology is a hybrid mu-follower and a source follower drives the output stage. Filaments are DC with Rod Coleman&#8217;s board:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9990\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9990\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/img_9519.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9990\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/2021\/08\/20\/ef86-300b-xls-se-amplifier-build\/img_9519\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/img_9519.jpg?fit=750%2C1000&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"750,1000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 11&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1629201665&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.25&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_9519\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Dan Kercher&amp;#8217;s EF86 &amp;#8211; 300B XLS SE Amplifier build&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/img_9519.jpg?fit=750%2C1000&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9990\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/img_9519.jpg?resize=750%2C1000&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/img_9519.jpg?w=750&amp;ssl=1 750w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/img_9519.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Kercher&#8217;s EF86 &#8211; 300B XLS SE Amplifier build<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>More details can be found below:<\/p>\n<pre dir=\"ltr\" data-setdir=\"false\">Hi Ale,\u00a0\n\nI wanted to thank you for all of your PCBs. \u00a0I just finished a project that uses your Gyrators, SiC bias boards, and SiC Source Followers. \u00a0I'm so happy with the results. \u00a0Details posted on Audio Asylum. \u00a0\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.audioasylum.com\/forums\/tubediy\/messages\/27\/276814.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.audioasylum.com\/forums\/tubediy\/messages\/27\/276814.html<\/a>\n\n\nCheers,\u00a0\n\nDan\u00a0\n\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a very nice build from Dan Kercher on his contraption of the 300B amplifier with auto bias. The driver is an EF86 with SiC diode biasing, the topology is a hybrid mu-follower and a source follower drives the output stage. Filaments are DC with Rod Coleman&#8217;s board: More details can be found below: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/2021\/08\/20\/ef86-300b-xls-se-amplifier-build\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;EF86 &#8211; 300B XLS SE Amplifier build&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[673,12,911,1179,158,5],"tags":[610,1323,1412,1413,1092,875,652,1061],"class_list":["post-9989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-300b-amp","category-dht-valves","category-gyrator-pcb","category-pcb","category-se-designs","category-valves","tag-300b","tag-300b-se-amplifier","tag-300b-xls","tag-ef86-driver","tag-emission-labs","tag-gyrator-pcb","tag-hybrid-mu-follower","tag-source-follower"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2r2tK-2B7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9991,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9989\/revisions\/9991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}