The 1590B warning... Don't threaten me with a good time lolBuild doc updated with a page of links to various parts...
TMB and Volume Only PCBs - Google Drive
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The 1590B warning... Don't threaten me with a good time lolBuild doc updated with a page of links to various parts...
TMB and Volume Only PCBs - Google Drive
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By the way, I'm willing to sell some of these, too, but it's kinda pointless with the real ones still available for cheap. I've already soldered the 3118 on all 10 of them. I would have to sell each for $6 as they are (no other components), which is already the same price the real ones. So, this would only be for folks that really want to build the whole deal themselves (like me). I'm wondering if it's worth designing an all-in-one board with preamp and 3118 but the board-sandwich method works really well and makes great use of space in the 125B.There's really nothing to design. The circuit is right out of the TPA3118 datasheet. So it's just a clone of the boards we've been buying but using thru-hole components. Only did it because... Why not?
And I have a very cheap hot plate that gets too hot, so need to work fast.
FYI, a close up of the result. Just did 9 more boards all at once. This wasn't hard at all, but absolutely need a USB microscope to see the pins close up while the the solder is melted and getting it lined up. I used a toothpick to put a very little bit of solder paste along the pins and on the heat sink pad on the PCB and on the pad on the bottom of the IC. When the solder paste melts it wicks onto the pads and is ready for the IC. Then some pointy tweezers to place and nudge the IC until perfect. Same tweezers to move the board carefully up off the hot plate. After they cooled, used a tooth pick to buff off any tiny solder balls stuck around the pins.
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Certainly not. The first op-amp stage has a voltage gain of about 9X to get instrument level up to line level into the EQ, which has a significant attenuation. Should not be anywhere near clipping. What signal level are you feeding in?I'm running the circuit from post #161 - the TMB. Is it expected that each half of the opamp clips and introduces significant distortion? Powering mine with 23V+. 1in+ and 2in+ are both at 1/2VCC. I've soldered onto perfboard and breadboarded it. From most of what I understand is that this should be mostly a clean power amp.
Something is wrong with your circuit. My guess is at least one of the op amps has the wrong (or missing) feedback resistors to set the gain. It should not have enough gain to do this.Update, tried another 3118 module., one of the ones with "35v" caps and no mute pad. No problems. It gets a bit of mild clipping when running at very high volumes through my 16ohm speaker. Not really sure what was going on there. Maybe an input gain knob would help to limit some high volume clipping