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- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Amplifier for 25K Hertz...SKIP
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.182216.3582@vax.muskingum.edu>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 00:22:16 GMT
- References: <9952@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
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- Organization: Muskingum College
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- In article <9952@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>, nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu (John Nall) writes:
- > Hi:
- > I wonder if someone could share a bit of knowledge with me?
- > I haven't really fooled around with hands-on-electronics since
- > my Heathkit and ham-radio days (about 25 years ago), so am not
- > at all sure what sort of chips are available these days.
- >
- > What I have is a small box with a built-in speaker which
- > emits a ~25K Hz (above the range us humans can hear) when I
- > press a button. The strength of the signal is very small.
- >
- > What I want to do is to amplify this signal and drive a
- > larger speaker. The way that I'd like to do it is to pull the
- > signal which is now going to the built-in speaker off and direct
- > it to an audio amplifier. The output of the audio amplifier would
- > then go to the larger speaker, with a variable control. The
- > maximum desired signal would be 10 watts.
- >
- > Back in the "good ole days" I'd have gone to my trusty ARRL
- > manual, or something like that, and found a circuit for an audio
- > board, and built it up with a transistor and variable resistor.
- > I feel sure that there is probably a chip available to do the same
- > thing, but don't know what it might be. (I've asked in my local
- > Radio Shack store, but the clerk there is not too bright. She tried
- > to instead sell me a hi-fi amplifer :-)
- >
- > Thanks for any help. BTW, I'm guessing on the exact frequency
- > of around 25K Hz, but it is around there somewhere (this device is a
- > dog training device, and the sound emitted is at a doggy frequency.
- > I need to extend the range).
- >
- > John
- >
- > --
- > John W. Nall | Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
- > nall@mailer.scri.fsu.edu | Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306
- > "You cannot be a beacon, if yo' light don't shine!"
- > - heard on the car radio...
-
- Hmmmm John,
-
- 10 WATTS, hope you don't have any neighbor kids with
- Gerbels or hamsters within a couple of miles,
- they may take a sudden interest in leaving home!!!!!!
-
-
- Might even drive a few wives to run off.
-
-
- Jim N4JDP
-