Hey there...
Building a guitar amp and having a little trouble getting my head around how to obtain more clean volume. I've been at this for a few months now.
I have a ne5532 op amp which has a max current output of 16ma and max output voltage of 22V peak to peak. I have this op amp feeding a darlington pair push pull classab power amp stage with a current gain of 200.
Since the ne5532 maxes out at 22V peak to peak does this mean that if I am running it at 22v that
Volts X A = W so.....12V (half waveform) X 16ma = 38W ?
At a guess - I figure I can get a transformer with a larger output voltage swing but this means my op amp won't be able to handle the voltage...or I get a high current op amp. Is this right? In order to get more volume/power ? I have tried paralelling 3 of these ne5532 op amp's and I don't get more volume but a much cleaner sound...I would have thought that this would give me more power as there's more current but I'm obviously missunderstanding something, or..everything. Any help appreciated, thanks. Any past posters that have dissed me in the past, don't bother commenting - you will be ignored.
Building a guitar amp and having a little trouble getting my head around how to obtain more clean volume. I've been at this for a few months now.
I have a ne5532 op amp which has a max current output of 16ma and max output voltage of 22V peak to peak. I have this op amp feeding a darlington pair push pull classab power amp stage with a current gain of 200.
Since the ne5532 maxes out at 22V peak to peak does this mean that if I am running it at 22v that
Volts X A = W so.....12V (half waveform) X 16ma = 38W ?
At a guess - I figure I can get a transformer with a larger output voltage swing but this means my op amp won't be able to handle the voltage...or I get a high current op amp. Is this right? In order to get more volume/power ? I have tried paralelling 3 of these ne5532 op amp's and I don't get more volume but a much cleaner sound...I would have thought that this would give me more power as there's more current but I'm obviously missunderstanding something, or..everything. Any help appreciated, thanks. Any past posters that have dissed me in the past, don't bother commenting - you will be ignored.
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