Michael Kiwanuka: SOA Protection for Audio Power Amplifiers

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Power amplifiers, Technical

Power Amplifiers, and especially bipolar output designs, require output stage protection in the event of a fault, or the presence of a heavy or highly reactive load. Michael Kiwanuka explains the intricacies and the design methodology in his paper here soaprot_12-03-2012

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2 responses to “Michael Kiwanuka: SOA Protection for Audio Power Amplifiers”

30 November 2023

Bonsai

Hello Richard – thanks for catching that. I’ve updated the page and fixed the link.
27 November 2023

Richard Lyon

Hi, The link to this article about SOA protection seems to be out-of-date. Anu chance that it will be updated?
Regards …

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