Design of an Integrated Push-Pull Tube Amplifier Made Easy

Design of an Integrated Push-Pull Tube Amplifier Made Easy

This book is a beginner's guide that brings you, from the basic concepts of vacuum tubes, up to the design of a complete integrated push-pull vacuum tube amplifier.

This book first introduces the needed principles, to designing and understanding vacuum tube amplifiers. Then, it considers all relevant aspects for designing an integrated push-pull vacuum tube amplifier, including the power supply unit. Finally, a real integrated push-pull vacuum tube amplifier is designed from scratch, using the various concepts discussed in this book.

This book makes an extensive use of figures and proposes several practical examples, to design various parts of the circuits and to compute values of the needed components. This significantly contributes to simplify some possibly difficult concepts addressed.

The book is structured as follows:
Chapter 1: "Introduction" introduces the book itself and gives some suggestions on how to read it.
Chapter 2: â€œVacuum tube basicsâ€ introduces the needed concepts to understand vacuum tubes. This is a very basic introduction needed for the non-initiated. If you already know what vacuum tubes are and how they operate, you can skip this chapter.
Chapter 3: â€œVacuum tubes as amplifiersâ€ discusses how vacuum tubes can be used to obtain an amplifier. It introduces the concepts of operating conditions, loadline, biasing techniques, and amplifier classes.
Chapter 4: â€œIntegrated push-pull vacuum tube amplifierâ€ goes into the details of designing an integrated push-pull vacuum tube amplifier. It discusses the single-ended and push-pull configurations, the various needed stages (power, phase-split, and input stages), and global negative feedback.
Chapter 5: â€œPower supply unitâ€ discusses how to build the power supply unit for a vacuum tube amplifier. It introduces rectifier configurations and filters to reduce voltage ripple, to have a quiet amplifier. It explains how to estimate expected output DC voltage, ripple, and current delivered. It also discusses how to design power supply for the fixed bias circuit and for the filaments of the vacuum tubes.
Finally, Chapter 6: â€œStep by step design of a push-pull tube amplifierâ€ use all needed notions to design an entire integrated push pull vacuum tube amplifiers. It discuss the design of the power stage, the phase-split, and the input stage. It discusses the design of the global negative feedback loop. It also provides the design of the corresponding power supply unit.
Country USA
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2018-08-23
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2018-08-23
Format	Kindle eBook

Design of an Integrated Push-Pull Tube Amplifier Made Easy

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