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4season

9th November 2010 08:51 PM

Which Pass DIY amp for lowest heat + power useage?

I'm already looking forward to next summer and wondering if any of the First Watt / DIY amps are especially cool-running? I have a chiller for my place, but it's too noisy to run when I want to listen to music.

Zen Mod

9th November 2010 08:56 PM

speakers ?

4season

9th November 2010 11:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zen Mod (Post 2359788)

speakers ?

North Creek Okara II (~86 dB) but my room is tiny and my most powerful amps are single ended 300Bs good for 7 watts or so.

sreten

9th November 2010 11:56 PM

Hi,

I'm sorry but you want a cool running Pass amplifier ? get a grip ....

rgds, sreten.

Zen Mod

10th November 2010 07:06 AM

then F5 - decreased to some 40-45W dissipation per channel

possibly with Toshiba outputs ( ask Zhoufang) , because the will suffer less with Iq decrease

Melon Head

10th November 2010 01:45 PM

I would be inclined to build a BA2 but use lateral mosfets and bias it around 500mA.

AndrewT

10th November 2010 02:05 PM

any of them with the power switch turned to off

John C

10th November 2010 02:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AndrewT (Post 2360468)

any of them with the power switch turned to off

:cool::cool:

d to the g

10th November 2010 03:06 PM

most definitely something from "seven easy pieces"

there's also a pic of nelson holding a class d amp he designed. there might be a schematic for that floating out in the world.

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