Centure 24: digital 4-Channel DSP Amplifier with Class-H option

Smoke test passed and the ADC is also functional 🙂
 

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Hey there, may I ask what inductor you are using for the output as well as the output capacitor?
Hi, the type is 7w14a-100M, I found them sold as 20pcs lot on Aliexpress.

I really like the small inductors you used and I wonder if class H is disabled, will they get really hot at 45V?
They of course get hot and the chass H helps a lot to keep them cooler. I do not have exact measurements. But when I ran the amp at 1kHz sine 100W/ch for several minutes - they maybe heat up to around 50-60 degC.
 
Hi, the type is 7w14a-100M, I found them sold as 20pcs lot on Aliexpress.
Wow I am also using the same inductors for my design, but from a different source. I also got them from aliexpress too since there were none on Digi key. I am surprised that you still ended up with 10uh inductors, since the chip supports switching at 2.1 Mhz. Is the efficiency of the switching much lower at 2.1mhz compared to something like 400khz that most TI class d amps run at?
 
I am surprised that you still ended up with 10uh inductors, since the chip supports switching at 2.1 Mhz. Is the efficiency of the switching much lower at 2.1mhz compared to something like 400khz that most TI class d amps run at?
Well, I would say going for 10uH was a mistake because it is too much for 2 MHz PWM, there are noticeable signal distortion at frequencies higher than 480kHz. I still have plans to try 2.2uH + 2MHz. So now I can't comment of the gain in efficiency/THD.