UGS Power : it's U.P.

A "mini-UP"?

Hi. I built a pair of 100W Aleph-X monoblocks several years ago. And while they still work great, i've come to the realization that I don't need that much power. So I came up with the idea of breaking apart my monoblocks into some smaller amps and creating my own homebrew surround setup.

I remembered when I first built my aleph-x monos that grey's original design used 4 output devices to get 35 or so class-a watts into 4 ohms as long as your heatsinks could keep up and you didn't mind pushing your output mosfets to the brink.

I came across this thread and thought I might try this with the U.P. design. My heatsinks are capable, but I'd rather not have to worry about burning up output mosfets, so my goal is a 25 class-a watts into a 4-ohm load using 4 output devices with the U.P topology.

My problem is I don't really have the know how to calculate the appropriate idle current/source resistors/bias voltage for the ouput stage. And will there need to be any modification to the ugs to achieve this result?

Can anyone lead me in the right direction?
 
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.... and I `ll report you!
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please .... don't report me !!!!

:spin:


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Did you build this UGS thing?

you are asking almost official Papa's orphan (OK - just mentally :devily: ) did he build something from Papa ?

sometimes I feel like I'm not able to leave that devil's circle ...... ant think outside of it :rofl:


luckily there are two things to help me - da Toobz , and that I'm too wakoo to keep any prototype in use longer than 1 month .......
 
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please .... don't report me !!!!

:spin:




you are asking almost official Papa's orphan (OK - just mentally :devily: ) did he build something from Papa ?

sometimes I feel like I'm not able to leave that devil's circle ...... ant think outside of it :rofl:


luckily there are two things to help me - da Toobz , and that I'm too wakoo to keep any prototype in use longer than 1 month .......

Danke Zen Mod,

Ich habe sehr gelacht und werde Dir nur meinen Tod berichten!