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70 dB LM-386 Amplifier


Chuck Carpenter
 

Looking for more gain for use with SA612/LM386 receivers, I found this version by JF1OZL. *

Emacs!


Bread-boarded it and did some basic measurements with the feedback resistor Rf at 10 Ohms

With a bench supply voltage of 9V and at a frequency of 1 kHz, got the following results.

Input: 0.00275 Vpp** output voltage was 7 Vpp across a 7.5 Ohm 5W resistor, about 800 mW.

That calculated to ~69 dB (Data sheet is 43 dB)

The output looked clean with no apparent spurious stuff.

* Also another version from LA3ZA which used a few more parts.
** At 9V supply, the output starts clipping above this value from the function generator

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