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- >I've just put together an audio amplifier using a LM386N (date
- >code 7636) and using earphones it has a rather loud background
- >hiss. Is this normal?
- >
- >This is my first use of this chip and I like the low current
- >draw (about 4 mA), but the hiss has to go.
- >
- >I'm using the gain = 20/minimum parts circuit -- no bypass
- >capacitor on pin 7, no network on output pin 5.
- >
- >PS: Just to try it, I've got a capacitor mike attached to
- > the input, so there aren't any other semiconductors
- > except the FET in the mike, and no RF around.
- >
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- I have found that the LM386N is sensitive to an input impedence
- mismatch. This could be the problem if you are getting
- an uneven sounding white-noise (noise level changes with
- input level).
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-
- Kevin
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- Kevin R. Muenzler, WB5RUE The University of Texas Health
- muenzlerk@uthscsa.edu Science Center at San Antonio,
- Department of Computing Resources
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- From owner-qrp@Think.COM Wed Jul 6 11:49:16 1994
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- id IAA01590; Wed, 6 Jul 1994 08:48:36 -0700
- Date: Wed, 6 Jul 1994 08:48:36 -0700
- From: btoback@netcom.com (Bruce Toback)
- Message-Id: <199407061548.IAA01590@netcom3.netcom.com>
- To: WHITE@CCSUA.CTSTATEU.EDU, sct@po.cwru.edu
- Subject: Re: Toroid questions.....
- Cc: qrp@Think.COM
- Sender: owner-qrp@Think.COM
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-
- >> Do the PHASING DOTS on a schematic have any significance to me as a builder?
-
- To which Stephen Trier respnds:
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- >Yes. While once in a while the phasing dots are overspecified, it's
- >a good idea to always follow them if you see them. Otherwise, you
- >might end up cancelling out the signal you're trying to get.
-
- The phasing dots are used to indicate the ends of the windings that
- go together. That is, if there are three windings on the core,
- the connections with the phasing dots on the schematic should all be
- made to (for example) the left side of the windings.
-
- -- Bruce Toback
- KN6MN
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