LM388N-1 based power amp anyone?

Started by bancika, September 23, 2006, 07:44:06 AM

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bancika

anyone has some interesting guitar power amp based on this IC? I have one (thanks RLBJR65) here and it would be nice to make something of it.
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George Giblet

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It looks a lot like an LM386, plenty of LM386 projects around.

Initially I thought it was the same chip except the larger pakage allow it to output more power, but looking a little more closely it's not quite the same.  For example it LM388 uses a bootstrap cap instead of the internal current source to drive the output stage - that means the LM388 circuit will need an extra cap across pins 13 and 9.