Hi all I'm currently building a bass amp in which I've used a transformer from an old peavey. The problem is that I've hooked up the HT output to a full wave rectier (no center tap) but I'm not getting the desired output voltage. Transformer o/p is 360v so I should be getting around 500v after rectification, but I'm only getting 350v dc. I've tried it with two different rectifers (one a ready made "block" and the other made up of four 1n4007's) and got the same result both times. I thought at first it might be the block breaking down under voltage which why I tried using the 1n4007's,(the "block" is supposed to have PIV of 800v). However I'm now at loggerheads with my project and its holding up any further progress. Anyone got any good ideas or been through this before?
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