Topic 69: JCM 800 Preamp Analysis
25:09
Topic 66: The Cathode Follower
35:26
Topic 53: BJT Nonlinearity
22:11
4 ай бұрын
Topic 47: Depletion Mode MOSFETs
28:39
Topic 43: JFET Small Signal Amps
31:31
Topic 42: JFET Algebraic Analysis
13:46
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@sahhaf1234
@sahhaf1234 2 күн бұрын
No feedback loop?
@Electronics4Guitar
@Electronics4Guitar 2 күн бұрын
@@sahhaf1234 not this time. I’ll be covering negative feedback explicitly later in the series, particularly when I get to op amps.
@brianpoi5117
@brianpoi5117 5 күн бұрын
I'm just a hobbyist with a PhD in economics. In my 51 years, this video is the best introduction I've ever seen about diodes and PN junctions. I am going to order the book and follow all the remaining videos in the series.
@Electronics4Guitar
@Electronics4Guitar 5 күн бұрын
Thanks for the compliment! I hope you enjoy the rest of the videos 👍🏻
@longduonghoang9512
@longduonghoang9512 6 күн бұрын
Your chanel brings a lot of knowledge. Thank you very much. Anyway, do you have any course that teach about design Op-amp
@Electronics4Guitar
@Electronics4Guitar 5 күн бұрын
Thanks!! I will be covering op amp theory when I finish vacuum tube amplifier stuff. Hope you’ll stick around until then. It will be worth the wait 👍🏻
@Linguae_Music
@Linguae_Music 7 күн бұрын
Thank you, friend!
@Electronics4Guitar
@Electronics4Guitar 6 күн бұрын
@@Linguae_Music 👍🏻
@petersfatbelly
@petersfatbelly 8 күн бұрын
thank you sir,how can one build that voltage supply ?
@Electronics4Guitar
@Electronics4Guitar 7 күн бұрын
@@petersfatbelly I wish I could post schematics in the comments. When I eventually get back into solid state circuits again I’ll post some related circuits which should help. Thanks for watching 👍🏻
@You_T_Channel
@You_T_Channel 14 күн бұрын
Keep it up, your so clear on explaining your circuit's
@Electronics4Guitar
@Electronics4Guitar 14 күн бұрын
@@You_T_Channel thanks! 👍🏻
@timboehlert9703
@timboehlert9703 18 күн бұрын
Brings me back to 1981… learning electronics from design engineers at Atari! TTL logic, RAS and CAS, and all things new! It was an exciting time in computing, and I was lucky enough to be surrounded by the best in the field.
@Electronics4Guitar
@Electronics4Guitar 18 күн бұрын
Those were the good old days! Thanks for checking out my videos 👍🏻
@mrobson6052
@mrobson6052 21 күн бұрын
Great video. The pelvic organ prolapse ad in the middle if it was a bit disturbing, but I guess the content creator doesn't have any input as to the ads that KZbin inserts.
@mrobson6052
@mrobson6052 21 күн бұрын
I can't believe I just sat and watched an entire video about vacuum tubes! But the presenter made it so interesting I couldn't stop.
@Electronics4Guitar
@Electronics4Guitar 21 күн бұрын
@@mrobson6052 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@bobmoney6215
@bobmoney6215 23 күн бұрын
This is great! Thank you!
@Electronics4Guitar
@Electronics4Guitar 23 күн бұрын
Thanks! I’ve got several more in the works 👍🏻
@victrystarz5953
@victrystarz5953 27 күн бұрын
Sir you are a life saver. Thank you so much it makes perfect sense how the charge and discharge equations come into existence
@Electronics4Guitar
@Electronics4Guitar 27 күн бұрын
Thanks. Glad you found the information useful 👍🏻
@davidluther3955
@davidluther3955 Ай бұрын
AS USUAL EXCELLENT VIDEO PRESENTATION!WHAT IS THE OUTPUT IMPEDANCE OF THESE CIRCIUTS?
@Electronics4Guitar
@Electronics4Guitar Ай бұрын
@@davidluther3955 roughly the same as for the usual common cathode and cathode followers.
@Seba.morales21
@Seba.morales21 Ай бұрын
U rock dude!!! Thanks for all your videos, I’m really learning a lot
@Electronics4Guitar
@Electronics4Guitar Ай бұрын
Thanks!! I know I get pretty deep into the weeds with the math and more advanced circuit analysis, so I appreciate you hanging in there with me. My most recent videos are well into tube amp analysis and design which I think is some very cool material. Hope you continue to watch and find it worthwhile 👍🏻
@Seba.morales21
@Seba.morales21 Ай бұрын
@ I actually appreciate a lot the fact you go deep in maths. I’m currently studying sound engineering, specializing in audio electronics and signal processing, your videos have been helping me a lot in understanding better all of this and you can be sure I will see them all! Hahaha Greetings from Chile my friend, and thanks again for your work😄
@davidluther3955
@davidluther3955 Ай бұрын
WHAT IS YOUR DEFINITION OF A SMALL SIGNAL VOLTAGE AND,LARGE SIGNAL VOLTAGE?
@Electronics4Guitar
@Electronics4Guitar Ай бұрын
In the context of typical amplifier applications, a small signal is a signal that allows us to use the linearized behavioral model of the device (BJT, FET, tube or whatever). We assume that device parameters are constant and things like clipping don’t occur. A large signal is one that causes the amplifier to behave nonlinearly- usually in the form of clipping. If we are dealing with circuits that are inherently nonlinear (log amps, analog multipliers etc) then we make other assumptions.
@danielraducu9073
@danielraducu9073 Ай бұрын
I can't figure out some stuff... Vin is sinusoidal, the C1 cap is gonna filter whatever trace of DC is found, but Vg1 has negative values... how is it possible ? i thought any offset is gone ... those small negative voltage values.. how do they look like? is it ac? is it dc ? My brain short circuits... please help
@Electronics4Guitar
@Electronics4Guitar Ай бұрын
Yes, Vg = 0 V because Ig=0. But VGK is negative: K is positive with respect to G, because of the drop Ip*Rk.
@danielraducu9073
@danielraducu9073 Ай бұрын
+250v Vpp is AC voltage ?
@Electronics4Guitar
@Electronics4Guitar Ай бұрын
Vpp is modern notation for the positive DC supply rail. The old school notation would be B+. The notation I use corresponds to that used in BJT and FET circuits (Vcc, Vee, Vss, etc).
@eduardocastroisaac1630
@eduardocastroisaac1630 Ай бұрын
Thanks
@davidluther3955
@davidluther3955 Ай бұрын
WHY DID YOU USE Vpk AND,NOT Vpp WHEN USING THE LOADLINE?
@Electronics4Guitar
@Electronics4Guitar Ай бұрын
@@davidluther3955 not sure what you mean. These are basically the same equations we used for BJT and FET amplifiers.
@leandrocarg
@leandrocarg 2 ай бұрын
23:35 if you remove the screen grid bypass cap then you are introducing negative feedback and this should reduce distortion, right?
@Electronics4Guitar
@Electronics4Guitar 2 ай бұрын
@@leandrocarg it would reduce mu and it increases response to power supply ripple. Distortion will increase because screen current varies with plate current, but variation in screen voltage causes changes in mu, gm, rp which results in intermodulation distortion. Bypassing the screen reduces this effect.
@leandrocarg
@leandrocarg 2 ай бұрын
@@Electronics4Guitar So you are saying distortion rises because of poor PSRR? Shouldn't this contribute to hum instead of distortion? It's noise after all. I know that this NFB would reduce mu and rp, lower rp means more PS hum drop on Rp!!RL (a simple voltage divider), but I don't get why should the distortion figure be affected.
@davidluther3955
@davidluther3955 2 ай бұрын
EXCELLENT PRESENTATION!STILL HAVE TROUBLE READING THOSE GRAPHS.
@junkyoutube9060
@junkyoutube9060 2 ай бұрын
Thank you for explaining this to us. Do people ever put a scope on the power supply while playing different instruments and seeing if any of them make the power supply sag ?
@Electronics4Guitar
@Electronics4Guitar 2 ай бұрын
I haven’t seen much detailed information on supply sag, it it is a popular topic in guitar gear forums. Using relatively high value resistors in the pi filter can cause sag, but it also depends a lot on the amplifier topology. Class-A amplifiers have a nearly constant current drain regardless of volume level so sag isn’t really a possibility. Amps with class-B output stages are more likely to induce sag. I’ll cover this topic in detail in a future video.
@georgetrax9922
@georgetrax9922 2 ай бұрын
also make some videos about the EL504 lamp
@Electronics4Guitar
@Electronics4Guitar 2 ай бұрын
@@georgetrax9922 I’ll be doing pentodes soon 👍🏻
@SpinStar1956
@SpinStar1956 2 ай бұрын
Great to see you doing these calculations, as there are a lot of people that would really like to see the rationale behind a circuit design. Just a minor point but even in 1/2W values, you can get 750 and 9.1K (metal-film from Amazon) which would be closer and will likely give you closer results in your empirical testing. Again, hats-off to you for providing this kind of lesson! 73... 😊
@Electronics4Guitar
@Electronics4Guitar 2 ай бұрын
@@SpinStar1956 thanks! I like to present circuit analysis and design succinctly, with all the gritty details and as little hand waving as possible, and without childish antics (like some content creators that I won’t mention by name). Also, you are right. I should expand my resistor assortment for the experimental circuits (just ordered some on Amazon). I do order precision resistors when I build amps, effects, etc. though. Anyway, thanks again for the feedback and hopefully you’re subscribed 👍🏻
@peterbulanyi1708
@peterbulanyi1708 2 ай бұрын
Thanks for the lecture. Assignment accepted 🙂Quick question. Is the -Ve sign for voltage gain used to signify the 180 degree phase shift between the input and output voltages?
@Electronics4Guitar
@Electronics4Guitar 2 ай бұрын
Yes. The negative sign just indicates that the gain is inverting. I will probably present the solutions to the problem in the next video. Hopefully in a week or so.
@davidluther3955
@davidluther3955 2 ай бұрын
EXCELLENT PRESENTATION!I WAS HAVING TERRIBLE TIME READING THOSE GRAPHS THOUGH,CALIBRATION GOOD BUT,GRAPH TO SMALL.
@Electronics4Guitar
@Electronics4Guitar 2 ай бұрын
They’re hard to read even at full size. The best thing to do is print some out from the PDFs online and work along with the video. I am working on cleaning them up but it’s going to take a while.
@peterbulanyi1708
@peterbulanyi1708 2 ай бұрын
Great lecture again! Quick question, with regard to Q point. What sort of basic requirements drive choosing a particular Q point for a vacuum tube type. Is it the application of the circuit, say a record pre-amp, or a headphone amp or guitar pre-amp, and/or operating requirements like efficiency, plate dissipation, available power supply, etc?
@Electronics4Guitar
@Electronics4Guitar 2 ай бұрын
@@peterbulanyi1708 several factors. In most applications we want the Q-point centered on the AC load line for maximum unclipped output. In a guitar amp we might choose this location or a location that produces asymmetrical clipping. As long as the load line is within the SOA it’s all good. There are subtle things to consider too but I’ll get to that in a few videos.
@leandrocarg
@leandrocarg 2 ай бұрын
Cool! Can't wait till you get to pentodes. Btw I have designed, analysed and built some interesting topologies with pentodes you might want to take a look.
@Electronics4Guitar
@Electronics4Guitar 2 ай бұрын
Pentodes are on the menu!
@davidluther3955
@davidluther3955 3 ай бұрын
WOULD YOU DO A PRESENTATION A CLASS C AMPLIFIER?
@Electronics4Guitar
@Electronics4Guitar 3 ай бұрын
@@davidluther3955 probably sometime after I finish all of the audio related stuff. I will get into tuned circuits, basic RF amps, etc eventually but it won’t be for a while.
@davidluther3955
@davidluther3955 3 ай бұрын
EXCELLENT PRESENTATION!I WAS ONE OF THE LAST TO HAVE ANY BACKGROUND IN MY ASSOCIATE DEGREE PROGRAM ON VACUUM TUBES AND,I NO REGRETS ABOUT IT.I SOMETIMES THINK IT IS GIVEN A BAD RAP.
@collinpeters3691
@collinpeters3691 3 ай бұрын
You know, that "emitter resistance looks beta times larger" deal caused me a lot of heartache at some points. When you're first exposed to transistor analysis it is easy to get lost in all the different formulas and the fact that this is a simple model to represent a physical device sometimes gets forgotten. This is a great, concise introduction to NPN large signal. Nice work, I am excited to watch your push-pull stuff and staging analysis!
@Electronics4Guitar
@Electronics4Guitar 3 ай бұрын
Thanks!! Yeah, sometimes just using a general principle like this is really helpful. I try to present these ideas and rules of thumb, and also show how they are derived. Thanks for watching and I hope you like the rest of the videos too 👍🏻
@leandrocarg
@leandrocarg 3 ай бұрын
Good video! You can get into Norman Koren's phenomenological equations for more precise curves, but the algebra gets imposible due to the fact that those equations include transcendental functions, especially with his pentode equations.
@Electronics4Guitar
@Electronics4Guitar 3 ай бұрын
Absolutely! I’m familiar with Norman Koren’s work. Really good stuff! You’re right about the complexity of his equations (although, I do love the math as you have probably guessed). I use phenomenologically-derived equations too, but the techniques used for advanced curve fitting is maybe a bit off topic for this channel. Though, someday I might give it a go anyway. Never say never. And thanks for the feedback too! 👍🏻
@leandrocarg
@leandrocarg 3 ай бұрын
@@Electronics4Guitar I come from a maths background and really appreciate when electronics is explained in this language. You make a great job at it too. Graphical methods seem the way to go when designing and analysing tube circuits and these methods gave me very good results.
@peterbulanyi1708
@peterbulanyi1708 3 ай бұрын
Can't begin to thank you enough for this course. Absolutely brilliant and makes learning easy and enjoyable!
@Electronics4Guitar
@Electronics4Guitar 3 ай бұрын
Thanks! I really appreciate your feedback. I try to present the information and analysis/design techniques as efficiently and methodically as possible. I think you’ll really like the upcoming videos I have planned. Thanks again 👍🏻
@peterbulanyi1708
@peterbulanyi1708 3 ай бұрын
@@Electronics4Guitar I have my 12AU7 and experimenters socket PCB ready to go!
@swolodkin
@swolodkin 3 ай бұрын
I've been using ChatGPT as an assistant for my various projects for a while now. I've found it to be very helpful for the most part; however, it tends to want to stick to everything that has come before. That is to say, when you start to go into unknown territory, it tends to revert to things it already knows as opposed to guide you into more creative solutions. With respect to electronics, I have learned a lot simply by finding all the errors of fact and logic that it makes so I can then challenge it with the corrections. So I can give you the following advice wholeheartedly: DON'T TRUST THE ANSWERS / SOLUTIONS IT GIVES TO YOU - YOU MUST CHECK EVERYTHING FOR CORRECTNESS! I've found the new o1- series to make less mistakes of both fact and logic, but in the immortal words of Jonesy from Hunt For Red October - "I think when it gets confused it wants to run home to mama". 😉
@anshadedavana
@anshadedavana 3 ай бұрын
I never knew that you have to be an electronics engineer to play the guitar.
@Electronics4Guitar
@Electronics4Guitar 3 ай бұрын
@@anshadedavana guitar players do make the best electrical engineers 👍🏻
@GregSr
@GregSr 3 ай бұрын
I'm a big fan of bleeder resistors. Back in my Air Force days, I was a tech on an analog flight simulator. When power is off, most caps are drained by bleeder resistors - but not all. I brushed my hand across the leads of a big electrolytic capacitor. I got zapped hard by that cap. I grabbed my meter just to see how much charge was still in that cap. 300 volts! That particular cap is not tied to a bleeder resistor. Not sure why.
@Electronics4Guitar
@Electronics4Guitar 3 ай бұрын
@@GregSr oh yeah! Better safe than sorry. I’ve seen some circuits that had a diode in the supply rail for one reason or another and that would definitely defeat the function of a bleeder back at the main filter. Hope you’re enjoying the videos 👍🏻
@bobbysparky4299
@bobbysparky4299 3 ай бұрын
This whole series is outstanding. Keep up the good work! Well done young man!
@Electronics4Guitar
@Electronics4Guitar 3 ай бұрын
Thank you, sir!!! 👍🏻
@senkrouf
@senkrouf 3 ай бұрын
IT WAS A CURRENT MIRROR! wtf, why nobody explained this before.
@BlablablaPapapa
@BlablablaPapapa 3 ай бұрын
Great presentation 👍
@davidluther3955
@davidluther3955 3 ай бұрын
EXCELLENT EXPLAINATION!
@BlablablaPapapa
@BlablablaPapapa 3 ай бұрын
Great presentation
@Electronics4Guitar
@Electronics4Guitar 3 ай бұрын
@@BlablablaPapapa thanks! 👍🏻
@BlablablaPapapa
@BlablablaPapapa 3 ай бұрын
Great presentation
@Old_Coder
@Old_Coder 3 ай бұрын
Enjoying working through your videos. As an aside have you already covered somewhere the design of a simple 5 watt guitar amplifier? I understand that the right approach is to start at the output and work backwards but my practical efforts so far do not get enough current running through the output transistors!
@Electronics4Guitar
@Electronics4Guitar 3 ай бұрын
@@Old_Coder I haven’t done any vacuum tube amp design yet on KZbin. Just starting that material now. I presented the design of the 5 W practice amp on the Electronics for Guitarists Facebook page. Unfortunately KZbin won’t allow links in comments or I’d put it here. I will do that amp on here sometime, though.
@Old_Coder
@Old_Coder 3 ай бұрын
@@Electronics4Guitar Thanks I had a look on Facebook and that think I spotted the circuit with two IC's and a push pull output. What I have in mind is a template to design an amplifier from first principles and based on discrete components. I know this is a bit old school but it would be satisfying for me at least to achieve this .
@Electronics4Guitar
@Electronics4Guitar 3 ай бұрын
@@Old_Coder I’ll get there eventually. I have enough ideas for a few hundred more videos 👍🏻
@Old_Coder
@Old_Coder 3 ай бұрын
@@Electronics4Guitar Thanks . . . I'll continue to watch this space!
@davidluther3955
@davidluther3955 3 ай бұрын
EXCELLENT PRESENTATION!WHERE DO YOU FIND THE PERVIANCE DATA NUMBERS?I HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO FIND THIS NUMBERS DATA.
@Electronics4Guitar
@Electronics4Guitar 3 ай бұрын
@@davidluther3955 I derived it based on measurements.
@AnalogDude_
@AnalogDude_ 3 ай бұрын
Cool sound. I saw someone use a special low voltage OPA opamp, he powered it from the phantom voltage over the XLR cable for a diy microphone. Maybe you wanna look up that up: OPA1642
@BoxingDayAC
@BoxingDayAC 3 ай бұрын
Great video and I love MS Paint. Only weakness is saying Class B has no biasing. Audio textbooks bias Class B such as with two diodes in every example. B can have less distortion than AB.
@rrangana11
@rrangana11 Ай бұрын
A Class B will have crossover distortion where as Class AB will not have that distortion.
@Old_Coder
@Old_Coder 3 ай бұрын
As PSpice has a subscription cost I am using QSpice. I'll try to replicate.
@Pentode3000
@Pentode3000 3 ай бұрын
Despite the mediocre outcome i think it is remarkable technologie if you think about it. You put in a jpg and some text and the algorithm recognises your symbols your denominators and even finds in some cases the right equations. When there was no internet i had to find the specific book, then sort for useable books and sort for good books which are helpful in every day problem solving. As with every new technology problems will occur when people get lazy and choose the easy cheap way over experience and testing thoroughly. And when the answers of these machines become influenced by the humans who create them.
@Electronics4Guitar
@Electronics4Guitar 3 ай бұрын
Its ability to understand text and images is definitely impressive.
@ezion
@ezion 4 ай бұрын
I actually was doing this to help me figure out how to fix my amp!
@Electronics4Guitar
@Electronics4Guitar 4 ай бұрын
@@ezion it’s worth a try!
@Pentode3000
@Pentode3000 3 ай бұрын
What kinda amp and did it work?
@ezion
@ezion 3 ай бұрын
@@Pentode3000 1973/74 Sunn Studio Lead Combo amp. Yes, it worked perfectly. As a begining EE it helped me by giving me the assistance and reassurance in my hypothesis. I was able to identify high pass and low pass filters and have ChatGPT verify my findings. Helped me figure out transistor biasing a bit more overall.