Re: Bias current in Power Amps



Gareth Magennis wrote:

Hi,

In a typical class B transistor power amp with multiple output devices, what
should be the acceptable variation of bias currents through each output
device?

It's not highly critical.


In this example, 5 parallel NPN and 5 parallel PNP devices connected to
output rail by 0.47 Ohm emitter resistors. The voltage across each 0.47 ohm
gives each device's bias current (not sure what tolerance the resistors are)

Typically 5 or 10%


which varies from device to device (and globally) quite a bit as temperature
goes up and down. At what point would you consider a single device to be
out of spec or suspect?

This amp very occasionally goes briefly into protect, I'm wondering if there
is a suspect output device and/or if I can find it.

It certainly won't be that.

Graham

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