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- Subject: Re: class D power amp
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.023445.16517@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
- From: stuartw@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Stuart Woolford)
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 02:34:45 GMT
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- till@acid-rain.lucid.com (Don Tillman) writes:
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- >Well if you're gonna have a linear regulated power supply, you loose a
- >chunk of the efficiency feature of Class D.
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- >Howzabout a different hybrid approach? A switching power supply and a Class
- >D switching amp used to cascode a linear amp running in Class A or AB.
- >This gets you either the performance of Class A with the power dissipation
- >of Class B or the performance of Class AB with a lot less power
- >dissipation. Anybody know if this has been done before?
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- I have been thinking about a system where the power supple 'error' voltages
- are taken into account in the PWM stage, this would give the amp a good
- low-frequency ( up to 20-40kHz at a guess ) noise rejection, and would enable
- very badly smoothed supplies to be used ( even unsmoothed ?? ) as long
- as the higher frequencies are filtered out ( which is much easier than
- stabalizing with voltages.. ). A normal class-D would have a small amount
- of noise rejection ( now that I have thought about it.. ) but this would help
- to raise with low end of noise frequencies by increasing with effective speed
- of the error feedback for the power supply errors..
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- I have thought a little about the linear follower, and have seen articles
- about the old carver ( I think... ) magnetic-field amps, which worked like
- this ( and used few filter cap's.. ), but will leave this VERY INTERESTING
- consideration until I get a normal class-D ( or similar.. ) going..
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