Wien-Bridge Oscillator using BJT's

JDT

Joined Feb 12, 2009
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For starters, I'm slightly worried about some of your component values. Is the emitter resistor of Q2 really 7 ohms? in that case you have got 0.58A flowing through this transistor! A real 2N2222 would be getting rather hot (2.6W)!

A real wien-bridge oscillator requires some white noise in the system to get it going. This noise is amplified, filtered and fed back. The feed-back increases until the oscillation is established*. Don't know if Orcad can simulate this.

* In fact the oscillation amplitude increases forever until something limits the increase. Usually clipping or some other non-linearity. A real wien-bridge oscillator has an automatic gain controlling device - often a thermistor.

Find a circuit diagram (google) and build the real thing.
 
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