Stereo to mono, signal mixer works on Orcad not on breadboard

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Atsea

Joined Jun 23, 2017
5
Hi

I'm building an small Bluetooth speaker. I got an stereo Bluetooth amplifier and since I have just one speaker I'm trying to built a mixer as in the picture attached. I simulated the inputs with AC random signal with VDC offsets etc to see how the circuit reacts. It actually works in Orcad but not when I built it. It actually through a very faint signal to the speaker that can't be barely hear.
R+ goes into R1
R- Ground
L+ R2
L- Ground
At the speaker
Vo (purple probe) into the positive terminal. Negative terminal to ground. If I plug R+ or L+ into the speaker's positive terminal I get sound but nothing when I get Vo which is supposed to be Vo=-(V1+V2)

I have two 15V power supply so I connected +VCC positive to pin 7 negative to ground and -VCC negative to pin 4 positive to ground.

Any help will be very welcome. Thank you in advance for your support.

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Sensacell

Joined Jun 19, 2012
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Your speaker is probably 4 or 8 ohms, a 741 is not a power amp, it cannot drive a speaker directly.

Try adding an 8 ohm load to your simulation- see what happens.
 

crutschow

Joined Mar 14, 2008
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Your speaker is probably 4 or 8 ohms, a 741 is not a power amp, it cannot drive a speaker directly.

Try adding an 8 ohm load to your simulation- see what happens.
He says he has a stereo amp, which I assume is what he is connecting to the mixer output.
 

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Atsea

Joined Jun 23, 2017
5
Your speaker is probably 4 or 8 ohms, a 741 is not a power amp, it cannot drive a speaker directly.

Try adding an 8 ohm load to your simulation- see what happens.
Yeah, flat, the signal goes to 0v when adding a 8 Ohmns resistor. So then assuming that I have both signals added, I should make a power amplifier right after the op amp right?
 

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Atsea

Joined Jun 23, 2017
5
He says he has a stereo amp, which I assume is what he is connecting to the mixer output.
It is correct, the stereo amp is connected to the mixed. In that case how could I create a mixer that can handle a 4ohmns speaker?. Any idea that I can start looking into_

Thank you in advance for your help
 

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Atsea

Joined Jun 23, 2017
5
If you already have an amp the can drive the speakers why do you want the mixer to drive 4 ohms? :confused:
The reason is because the Bluetooth amplifier is stereo and I need mono that is why I wanted the mixer so I could combine both channels into one. If not, since I just have one speaker, I would have to feed either R or L channel into the speaker. Is there any other way that with passive components I can mix both signals?.
 

crutschow

Joined Mar 14, 2008
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Just mix the two stereo signals together into one channel of the amp and use that to drive your speaker.
You can do that with a 5kΩ or so resistor at the output of each stereo signal (2 resistors total) and combine the two resistors into one of the stereo amp inputs.
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Atsea

Joined Jun 23, 2017
5
Just mix the two stereo signals together into one channel of the amp and use that to drive your speaker.
You can do that with a 5kΩ or so resistor at the output of each stereo signal (2 resistors total) and combine the two resistors into one of the stereo amp inputs.
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Thanks crutschow. I tried that and worked but volume dropped to half. I'm thinking in having if right after the mixer a LM386 amplifier or use a transistor as amplifier. What do you think a bout that?. I will do some simulations and see what happens. Thank you again for you help.
 
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