The Class - H Amplifier

Where the switch occurs at must be related to the program material. What is best for sine wave is not always the best for music. Technics did temperature tests with actual program material to determine what was best for home theater.

Bob Carver also did similar tests for three tiers.
 
Hi Gold,

Djk is right the actual efficiency with Musical waveform is much different as I already said, with pure sinewave its very much different thing, because the Musical Content features lots of High amplitude peaks in comparision with normal average program material and this is where the Class-H/G amp seeks its advantage and proving more efficiency....

Thanks DJK for valuable comments....

K a n w a r
 
Hey Gold_XYZ, here is an image of a spreadsheet we created up at my work. I will only share a screen shot for obvious reasons. All the formulas can be easily derived as you are already doing but what is interesting is to see how efficiency changes with different settings. Basically, the sheet is set up to where you enter in a power level (top box) and then enter in thresholds for the minimum fixed DC rail, where it changes mode and how much headroom the rails maintain above the output signal. We found the sheet to be pretty accurate with bench work. The screen shot I have shows a 60W amplifier with a minimum rail of 10V (assuming split supply in all calculations) and the rail is kept at 2V above the output signal. The efficiency is 89% with these parameters. Very interesting to plot power dissipation vs. output power with different levels for all the parameters and compare the shape of the curves with each other and the classical bell shaped curve for a AB amp.

-SL
 

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