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6S45Pi diff pair input signal headroom [message #31098 is a reply to message #31097] Fri, 20 May 2005 07:55 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Hey-Hey!!!,
If you arrange a common cathode differential pair for phase splitting, one grid will be grounded, and signal will be applied to the other.

With the -2V of cathode-grid bias on them, the input headroom will be twice that assuming a few idealizations( like perfectly linear valves ). apply a 1V signal ( say a DC voltage ) and the cathode voltage will increase by 0.5V There will be a +/- mu/2 plate voltage change on the anodes( the input section will go - and the grounded section will go + ).

The anode-anode voltage change will be mu*input voltage. Accounting for nonlinearities, most of which cause 2nd order distortion, the actual headroom will be slightly different.
regards,
Douglas


 
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