Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Increasing the power of Pleiades 2N3053 amplifier

At you risk. Increased Vb from 12V to 24V, quiescent current with 200KOhms bias resistor from collector to base is about 10mA. Amazing sound while power is still much less than 1 Watt. On 1st May a second amp (the other channel for stereo) was built on 47cmx31cm plywood base board below an orange 40cm x 30cm linoleum Tarkett Etrusco sheet, connections with Wago connectors, pin wirewrap strips for transistor base, potentiometers, RCA connectors etc, connected with wirewrap, ie no soldering iron used troughout!. Fuse in series with battery is 100mA. Amazing sound with KEF CS5 or Celestion Ditton 150 speaker, both channels not tried yet. Naim Nait 2 amplifier tried on one speaker too for comparison, much louder but less bass depth or extenssion, bass sounded extended only when Nait was on stereo driving a pair of speakers. The 2N3053 almost no feedback design sounds easy with delicate, easy , extended treble, airy, quicy midrange and deep bass since the output transformer was included. Photographer Vangelis is interested in building one from the Pleiades 2N3053 schematic drawn to him. Vangelis kindly donated a pair of F&K Design speaker bases. Thank you God listening on yesterday's prayer.

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