F5 power amplifier

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you will be comparing one 500Hz voltage measurement to another similar voltage 500Hz signal.
When you are comparing like this a small error in frequency response does not affect the comparison. It only affects the absolute accuracy of the voltage measurements. Since all our amateur measuring systems have an accuracy tolerance, we should always remember that we cannot make good absolute measurements, but if we are careful we can make very good comparison measurements.
 
umut1001, You didn't show the other side of your "heatsink" so it is difficult to have a good idea what it is or can do... but I would think it is too small...

You might get away with using two of those per channel, one per mosfet...

I would think that your aluminum is getting very very hot right now, IF you have biased the outputs into class A (that 1.3amps) - if you have less bias on them, then it will not get as hot, but will not be in Class A.

It is OK to run with lower bias, but you might have somewhat different sound quality...

_-_-bear

PS. keep in mind this amp has only 15dB of gain, so it will require more voltage at the input than usual to equal the gain of the "standard" power amp...

PPS. has anyone measured how much power or what % of full output the F5 produces with a standard 1vrms sine wave @ 1kHz input??
 
Hi Bear.It is 50cmx10cmx5cm.I biased it for 1amp. the room's temperature is about 5celcius and i can touch my hand for 5secons as nelson says :) but it will be hotter in summer because it reachs 39celcius here in my city Istanbul.I think i will use bigger ones.
I am curious that has anyone measured how much power or what % of full output the F5 produces with a standard 1vrms sine wave @ 1kHz input.
 

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Hi Bear.It is 50cmx10cmx5cm.I biased it for 1amp. the room's temperature is about 5celcius and i can touch my hand for 5secons as nelson says :) but it will be hotter in summer because it reachs 39celcius here in my city Istanbul.I think i will use bigger ones.
I am curious that has anyone measured how much power or what % of full output the F5 produces with a standard 1vrms sine wave @ 1kHz input.

you'll have much more thermal dissipation capacity from that heatsink , if you cut it in 4 pieces , place them with fins vertically and screw them together with nice Al or copper heat spreader

say - Al bar , 30x6mm is good enough
 
It is 50cmx10cmx5cm.

The equivalents of your heatsink are Fischer SK88 and Seifert KL209.
They're only practical to a length of 200mm, more economic is 150mm.
Additional dissipation of a 500mm length amounts to a few percent compared to a length of 200mm, at identical operating temperature.
Cut in four 125mm sections handles at least 2.5 times more heat, enough for a stereo F5.
 
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