The Practical Use of Current Dumping for High Power Amplifiers

Celen J, Sansen W. The Practical Use of Current Dumping for High Power Amplifiers. In: AES Convention 71. Audio Engineering Society; 1982. Paper 1868. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=11888

@inproceedings{Celen1982_11888,
  author = {Celen, J. and Sansen, W.},
  title = {{The Practical Use of Current Dumping for High Power Amplifiers}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 71},
  note = {Paper 1868},
  year = {1982},
  month = mar,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=11888}
}

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AB  - The theoretical aspects of current dumping are discussed. An example of a high power amplifier has been built with very cheap and slow output transistors. It uses a Class-G configuration to increase the efficiency and has no quiescent current. As a consequence, the power block introduces a lot of distortion. Yet the distortion of the whole amplifier is very low. Its characteristics are an output power of 500 W in a load of 8 ohm, a slew rate of 25 V/µs, a high power bandwidth of 32 kHz and a harmonic distortion of 0.0024% at 500 W 1000 Hz.
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