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faceblast
modified 6 years ago

Subwoofer Input Low Pass Filter

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looking at the circuit on this subwoofer, the preamp board has stopped preamping, most likely because of heat damage - the preamp power supply was 2x 2k2Ω 1W heaters shunted by 2x 15V quarter watt zeners. Input RCA jack is connected via two resistors directly to a TL084 input. so far I can see a low pass filter and what looks like a buffer. output of the buffer goes to a front panel pot somewhere, either crossover or volume. after this stage there's a standby detection circuit and phase control knob. the standby should power the sub off when there's no signal, but it doesn't appear to do anything apart from turn the standby led on and off; the output amp is stays fully powered. have started rebuilding the preamp on the bench, pics to come
published 11 years ago
hurz
11 years ago
Is there a cap missing at the second stage? It looks a bit strange this second opamp behavior. Probably there is an additional ~10nF at plus terminal to ground, this would give a little boost to around 60hz and would lower the cut of to 167hz. Or the cap is even bigger ~47nF?
faceblast
11 years ago
nope that's all it has, hence the redesign and rebuild! I'll need a lot of your help on this hurz
lenzrulz
11 years ago
Although the MOSFET is a four-terminal device with source (S), gate (G), drain (D), and body (B) terminals, the body (or substrate) of the MOSFET is often connected to the source terminal, making it a three-terminal device like other field-effect transistors. Because these two terminals are normally connected to each other (short-circuited) internally, only three terminals appear in electrical diagrams. The MOSFET is by far the most common transistor in both digital and analog circuits, though the bipolar junction transistor was at one time much more common. The main advantage of a MOSFET over a regular transistor is that it requires very little current to turn on (less than 1mA), while delivering a much higher current to a load (10 to 50A or more). However, the MOSFET requires a higher gate voltage (3-4V) to turn on. In enhancement mode MOSFETs, a voltage drop across the oxide induces a conducting channel between the source and drain contacts via the field effect. The term "enhancement mode" refers to the increase of conductivity with increase in oxide field that adds carriers to the channel, also referred to as the inversion layer. The channel can contain electrons (called an nMOSFET or nMOS), or holes (called a pMOSFET or pMOS), opposite in type to the substrate, so nMOS is made with a p-type substrate, and pMOS with an n-type substrate (see article on semiconductor devices). In the less common depletion mode MOSFET, detailed later on, the channel consists of carriers in a surface impurity layer of opposite type to the substrate, and conductivity is decreased by application of a field that depletes carriers from this surface layer. this is what happens when we become bored, we post drivel on each other's circuits, faceblast started this trend and I'm continuing it...enjoy!

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