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An amplifier can be used to adapt the range of a signal to a requirement, to make it more robust for transmission, or to satisfy interface requirements (like input/output impedance).
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Audio power amplifiers
An amplifier having a very low Thevenin equivalent output resistance is helpful to provide good damping. An ideal voltage source fits that profile. … A voltage-controlled voltage source might be specified as having a voltage gain, but you do not often see a spec like this for an audio amplifier. …
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Amplifier impedance compatibility
A really good audio amplifier will have an internal driving impedance very near zero ohms. … For light loads, like your 32 ohm example, less audio current is required of the amplifier compared to a load of 8 ohms. …
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Connecting Headphone Jack to Amplifier Help
This kind of jack allows left and right speakers to be connected when no headphone plug is inserted (top image).
Upon inserting a headphone plug, both speakers are disconnected by mechanical force of …
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Crossover distortion on an output capacitor-less amplifier (OCL) power amplifier
Could anyone explain why the output waveform is different from the
desired crossever distortion waveform?
Note that in linear applications, cross-over distortion is not desired - it is regarded as a …
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Lock-in amplifiers, signal averaging and signal post-processing
Averaging a DC signal to reduce noise doesn't get rid of:
DC offsets of amplifier chain
Thermally-induced offset voltages
Furthermore, noise tends not to be "white" at low frequencies. … Lock-in amplifier avoids all these pitfalls. You can place the reference frequency where the amplifier chain adds least noise. …
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emitter follower oscillation cured by adding base input resistor?
So if it wasnt capactive load on the output causing the issue what else could it be?
This is serious oscillation, if it can be seen on a 2Mhz-bandwidth 'scope. My numerous encounters with similar …
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Bridging Discrete (BJT) Amp Channels
One caution with the bridge-tied load....
Your load should be considered 8 ohms in series with a 1000uF capacitor. This will be a polarized electrolytic capacitor, whose polarity must be carefully ob …
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Op amp bandwidth analysis questions
Tony has addressed the upper cut off frequency at 15 kHz. About your other question (lower cut off frequency)...
The product page claims that the MP401 MEMS microphone itself attenuates frequencies be …
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Just how does high VSWR damage RF amplifiers?
An amplifier designer also ensures that at all other frequencies the matching network presents an impedance to the power transistor that ensures no spurious oscillations.
An example 7 MHz amplifier. … A conservative designer might employ a MOSfet having larger limits, yielding a stable amplifier that remains within limits for any load impedance. …
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Why is the maximum efficiency of a push-pull amplifier 78.5%?
It is good to review this.
@Barry gives the good answer. Am attempting a more graphic solution using LTSPICE. The assumption is that a sine wave is the signal source, whose peak voltage just grazes th …
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Class AB Amplifier - Q point
Class A biasing usually refers to a single transistor. Yes, Class A requires \$I_Q\$ to be about half-way. Class AB usually refers to two-transistor (push-pull), where one transistor takes care of upp …
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How/why exactly does this JFET work as a current source?
Why doesn't the output then swing to the positive or negative voltage
rail if the voltage at the negative input terminal fluctuates
sinusoidally?
Voltage at opamp "-ve" input doesn't fluctuate from …
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Methods for a very low gain audio amplifier?
Note that this buffer depends on your instrumentation amplifier to provide +3v bias - "input" must be connected directly to op-amp output. …
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Amplify piezoelectric transducer voltage
You could use almost any microphone preamp as a signal amplifier.
You can also use a high-impedance preamp to emphasize the parallel-resonance mode of the transducer. … things: it amplifies voltage from a high-impedance source, and it presents to the Arduino a bias point about half-way between ground and Vref (assuming Vref=Vcc of 5v):
simulate this circuit
This amplifier …
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Why are they connecting the input signal parallel to the dc source?
A practical version of the Class-A amplifier might generate the base-bias voltage this way:
simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab
The 12K and 2.7K resistor generates about …