HV power supply boards, capacitors, diodes and thoughts.

Nomad said for me to look at his HV power supply replacement PCB as a replacement for the junker Golden Falcon amplifier I bought. Well Nomad, I been buying and using your HV PCB's since you came out with them. Back in the day when Pride DX-300's could be found for a reasonable price, I would always upgrade them with the Nomad Pride HV PCB. Then Nomad came out with the LV PCB for the Pride and I would use that too. Also, since I liked the HV PCB so much, I would often use the Pride 6 cap board for other amps too. Course you had to keep in mind, that with only 6 caps, at 450v per cap, that would be only 2700v max plus you need to leave some room for a safety margin. Hence, like Nomad suggested, one could use 500v caps instead of the 450's to bump the HV up to 3kv's minus the safety margin. I been doing this for years but now I'm glad Nomad came out with a 9 cap version of this PCB. This would bump the voltage to 4150 using all 9, but since my latest project is only running at 3kv, I only used 8 caps in series. Harbaugh sells a nice HV PCB too and its a little cheaper than Nomad's but Harbaugh has been sold and bought out and is going thru reorganization right now. Plus, I am a fan of Nomad, so long live Nomad. I just wish he would re-do the Mark IV PLL thing again though.