Re: BJT Pair for Push-Pull, 1W, 33V, 200mA, 1MHz (& maybe no heatsink)?

John Jardine. wrote:
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Seems like the power output stages of every Function generator ever
made,
use the 2N2219-2N2905 pair.
john

John,

Good call!

I had looked at those, first, after no TO-92-cased models seemed to be
quite up to the task. And just this morning I tested 2N2219A and
2N2905A (metal can TO-39 cases) in the circuit and.... it looks like
no heat sink will be necessary (well, maybe for the 2905A; but only a
small one. I'd probably stick one on both, anyway, if there's room.).

I'm guessing that maybe they will also operate down to lower currents
than larger devices. Or is that way off?

Thanks!

Tom Gootee


You should have little problem controlling signals down to the prevailing
noise. Courtesy of available loop gain and offset voltage of that input
opamp.
Reading the words I get a gut feeling that the circuit has somehow run out
of gain.
It's awkward (I'm idle!) to mentally reconstruct your circuit description.
Any chance you could put the relevant part of the drawing up somewhere, then
maybe all the lads can have a perusal?.
john

John,

Well, now that you mention it, there is one small problem that I
noticed in Spice simulations: For the maximum step size, the largest
step doesn't QUITE make it to its intended value. When it should reach
15v or 150 mA, it only gets to about 14.9V or 149mA.

I had to play with the 806 Ohm split bias resistors' values, to get the
max output as high as possible (something like 14.5v out for 15v in),
and then had to add the "boost" capacitors from the output to the bias
resistors' junctions, to get it to go to 14.9v for 15v in.

If I lowered the emitter resistors' values some more, from, say, 1 Ohm
to 0.1 Ohm, then the output would reach 15 v, for 15v in. I'm not sure
that I really need them, actually, but didn't want to take the chance
of not having them. And 1 Ohm already seemed a little low.

I could also change the opamp's input and feedback resistor ratios. I
forget why I didn't want to do that, though.

I will post the schematic at:

http://www.fullnet.com/u/tomg/vccs.jpg (95 kbytes)

Thanks again!

Regards,

Tom Gootee

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