Cheap TPA3118D2 boards, modding them and everything that comes with it

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http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/tpa3118d2.pdf

Page 14. The resistors on the Sanwu boards for gain setting are : R27 (= R2 in datasheet) and R28 (= R1 in datasheet). That's all.

Irribeo added that there is an error in the datasheet. You can set the amps for 20 dB by just omitting resistor R27 (often but not always 75 kOhm on the Sanwu boards). The value itself does not matter much it seems when 20 dB (10 x amplification for those allergic to logarithmic) setting is chosen. This was acknowledged on the TI forum.
 
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http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/tpa3118d2.pdf

Page 14. The resistors on the Sanwu boards for gain setting are : R27 (= R2 in datasheet) and R28 (= R1 in datasheet). That's all.

Irribeo added that there is an error in the datasheet. You can set the amps for 20 dB by just omitting resistor R27 (often but not always 75 kOhm on the Sanwu boards). The value itself does not matter much it seems when 20 dB (10 x amplification for those allergic to logarithmic) setting is chosen. This was acknowledged on the TI forum.

There's not room inside for an excessive amount of ccs circuits, therefore:
Undervolted 20db
Nominal power voltage, 26db
Maxed power voltage, 32db

The gain that you should set is likely to correspond to the power voltage utilized. That is typical, but just bear in mind that mine has not yet arrived in the mail...
 
On some ampboards the gainsetting has very big effect on soundquality, not just on bass.
On some ampboards psu voltage has very big effect on soundquality, not just on treble.
See what you find.

edit: if you browse the web you can find several distortion measurements for tpa3116/18, some show dominant 3rd order, some show dominant 2nd order, for identical ampboards, the psu (not voltage) is the difference there too :)
 
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