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And now more projects...
The previous series of audio power amplifier projects that I was working on used the LME498xx series of high-voltage input stage drivers. I have posted several of them, starting with Proj8, Proj11~25, and finally Proj39~42, but there’s really more than that and they have not been posted on the website as shown in the Tinkerer’s Workshop. It all started with Proj8, when I had the PCB fabricated professionally to verify its layout quality. As a result of the first build, the audio quality it reproduced and represented was very impressive!
At present, I’m working on a new series of audio power amplifier projects that use an op amp at the front-end input stage of the amplifier. Currently, there are 16 amplifiers so far that have been built and tested, starting with Proj62.
Here’s a look at some of the completed projects:
This one is rated at 100 watts using Linear Technology LTC6090, which’s driving a pair of ThermalTrak transistors.
The next one is another 100-watt amplifier using an Analog Device ADA4700-1 connected to a complementary pair of Darlington transistors from Sanken.
This one is a 100-watt amplifier using Linear Technology LT1166, which controls the bias and effectively eliminates the matching of the QFET MOSFETs.