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BrianG
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12.22.2008, 01:10 AM

lol, most of the amps I worked on were your typical class AB types. Usually, some kid tried to run 1 ohm load on a 4 ohm stable amp and blew an output transistor. Easy fix. Class D is a different animal since they are switching amps. I don't have an o-scope to troubleshoot those and is needed to measure the reference sawtooth wave and such. Personally, 150 is probably a good deal to make sure it's done right.

Ok, now I have my amp and all the parts taken out of the existing setup. I want to run at least a 1F cap, but the one I have is the typical round style and is too big (3" diameter) to put where I want. I look online and see they now have cap banks in a blingy package. Soooo, I figure I can do that! I'll "just" find a bunch of smaller 10,000uF/25v low-ESR caps, and put them all in parallel for the 1F value. Well, I could only find 2200uF 25v low-ESR caps but it would take 454 of them! Well, that's not gonna work. I'll probably pick up one of those blingy cap bank styles, and get rid of the casing (and stupid LEDs and voltmeter bling). But, I'd like to know where they get their caps? If I could just get the circuit sans case/bling, that'll save some cash.
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