Chip amp in bridged mode

Started by John Lyons, February 02, 2021, 03:31:51 PM

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John Lyons

I've built this twice now on the breadboard at 9v
without success. I added an emitter follower/buffer
to get some more clarity for guitar.
It has a low oscillation with the buffer and sounds choked
and misbiased built just as in the image.
I have the Stereo/unbridged version working fine with the buffer.
I tried adding more filtering but I'm not sure where else to check.
Any ideas?




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Gus

What is the speaker ohm rating that you used in bridged mode?

antonis

Try to ground pin 13 as close as physically possible to 150nF caps ground..

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John Lyons

That's it! I moved a ground wire to put the .15 caps and pin 13
at the same point and it cleared up. Thank you.
I upped the 100uf at the output to 470uf also (before I changed the ground)
and that helped also. What is the affect of using .22uf rather than .15uf?

Gus:
I am using an 8 ohm speaker.
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antonis

Quote from: John Lyons on February 02, 2021, 04:18:30 PM
That's it! I moved a ground wire to put the .15 caps and pin 13
at the same point and it cleared up. Thank you.

You're welcome..  :icon_wink:

Next suggestion, in case of above non-effective, should be to delete one of 150nF caps and wire the remainder one between pins 2 & 15..
(to also prevent garbage entering into different points of GND..)
"I'm getting older while being taught all the time" Solon the Athenian..
"I don't mind  being taught all the time but I do mind a lot getting old" Antonis the Thessalonian..