Multistage BJT amplifier

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Ksin301

Joined Jun 11, 2014
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Hi again guys,
After recalculate the value of resistor my simulate finally show the results I wanted. I did use Av=Vout/Vin to get the Voltage gain and the buffer seem work fine with 10v input, but the require is 10mV when I use if, the output of buffer Q1 came out 7.707v volt DC, not AC, but when I use 10Vrms it show the results of AC with amplitude.
Mr. BrownOut and Shteii01 could you help me have a check? Did I fix the problem you guys told me? :X I try to design it from output stage then one by one to buffer stage :x.. or I still need to bias the transistor?
I quite weak on amplifier circuit :x.
 

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Jony130

Joined Feb 17, 2009
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First of all your transistors are incorrectly biased. As for Q3 you forgot to add voltage divider at the base. Also your capacitors values are way to small for such a low frequency input signal.
 

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Ksin301

Joined Jun 11, 2014
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First of all your transistors are incorrectly biased. As for Q3 you forgot to add voltage divider at the base. Also your capacitors values are way to small for such a low frequency input signal.
Firstly thanks for the advice Jony130,
but I have a really stupid question :x actually how I can detect the transistors is incorrectly biased? :x because I using the voltage divider biasing unloading bypass Common Emitter circuit :x
 

Jony130

Joined Feb 17, 2009
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For example the voltage at Q2 base is equal to:

VbQ2 = 15V * 40K/(15k + 40K) = 15 * 40/55 = 10.9V

So the voltage at Q2 emitter is equal 10.2V
So the IcQ2 current is equal to 10.2/3.84k = 2.6mA and the voltage drop at R3 is equal to 2.6mA *5K = 13V.
So Vce = 15V - 13V - 10.2V = -8.2V and this means that Q2 is in saturation.

Try re-calc the resistor values.
First assume Ve = 1V next Vce = 7V so VRc = 7V also.

http://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/showthread.php?p=222413#post222413
http://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/showthread.php?p=494633#post494633
 

shteii01

Joined Feb 19, 2010
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I had to look up how to do blocking capacitor.

You said signal is at audio frequencies.
So. I make assumption: 2 Hz to 20 kHz.

One formula I found is to decide that reactance of the blocking capacitor is 2 Ohm.
So.
Xc=1/(2*pi*f*C)
2 = 1/(2*pi*20000*C)
Solve for C.
 

Brownout

Joined Jan 10, 2012
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You said signal is at audio frequencies.
So. I make assumption: 2 Hz to 20 kHz.
More typically, the assumption is 20hz to 20khz. More practically, however, it should be about 80 Hz to 15KHz. The equation should solve for the lower -3db corner, so you should have:

c = 1/(2*pi*R*F), where R is the resistance seen by the capacitor and F is the lower -3db frequency.
 

shteii01

Joined Feb 19, 2010
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This is pretty rough, I got this for buffer.

Input is brown. 10 mV (20 mV peak to peak). No DC offset. The signal is centered on 0 volts DC.

Output is green. From 5.813 to 5.833 volts, 20 mV peak to peak. But now there is DC offset. I was going for 6 volts DC, but only got 5.823 volts DC.
 

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