FET amp need help !

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I found this circuit on a book ! Have anybody build this amp or know who design this amp ? How about the sound ? It stated Class A 100w(4ohm)N0-NFB . This amp original using 4 x 2SK405 , 4 x 2SJ115 and 2SC853/2SD261(one channel only) . I like to build it using 1 x IRF240 and 1 x IRF9240(one channel only).Keep saving $ and space ! Working or not working ? Please help me ! thank Q .
 
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TJ,

This looks like part of a schematic I saw in MJ magazine.
You have the schamatic of the output stage(follower) that is placed next to the speaker. The missing section is the pre-amp. or voltage gain stage which is placed with the rest of your equipment.
Coda I believe used this scheme with some of their equipment, the advantage is the possibility of getting rid of one active stage in the playback chain.

Jam
 
The circuit does work. I just built one. If you just feed the CD signal directly to the AMP, the volume is not enough. The sound volume about at 9 o'clock. So, in order to achive enough sound volume, it is recommed to work with a pre-amp.
 
For 33V rails use IRFP9140 for P channel, IRF240 for N channel (yes I know one is 100V the other 200). You will need only two pairs, and even that should provide a more robust output stage than the 4 pairs of L-MOS, at a fraction of the price.
You may need to adjust values in the bias generator as VMOS have higher threshold voltages and different thermal characteristics - in particular, if the small BJT is mounted on a heatsink with the VMOS outputs, it will end up overcompensating, which can be solved by replacing the diode with a small resistor (10s of ohms, start low and experiment with increasing the value measuring idle current while heating up the heatsink, eg. with a hairdrier, until you get best stability of the idle current with temperature).
DO NOT use VMOS parts with N at the end for this, so no IRFP240N etc, or low threshold voltage VMOS as there are no reasonable complements for these.
A single pair of IRFP9140 and IRFP240, provided a good heatsink and proper mounting techniques, is good enoug for over 100W output (this will require a 4 ohm load on 33V rails). If only one pair is used, it would be beneficial to use a Vgs multiplier for bias generation instead of a Vbe multiplier, and also use no source resistors on the output MOSFETs.
 
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