Auto bias for Class AB MOSFET Amplifier

Seems to work pretty stable -- start up, over frequency range, transients ect. The idea is to sense quiescent bias for feedback control when one MOSFET is off. that gets averaged for liner control.
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You need to run a FFT to measure low levels of distortion.

This board has several threads on class AB auto-bias. Yours is in the "slow" (relative to audio) category.

The difficulty with slow auto-bias is that overlap becomes hard to sense when the amplifier is delivering high dv/dt. I believe that is an intractable problem.

Fast class AB auto-bias works, and class A auto-bias works.

BTW, comparator X1 needs a reference voltage.
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Your circuit is working better than I expected. Its behavior is not the same for both transistors. It is erring in the direction of too much bias with a signal, which is the opposite of what happens with other approaches. Make sure that the circuit can handle very asymmetrical waveforms (1:1000) in both polarities.
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The currents in the above chart is intentionally made different for the two transistors as dictated by the input signal , not the bias. Throwing rocks at it

Yes, there is some variability in bias but I checked distortion and it always good over range and high load still has very little bias dissipation