>Rich wrote:
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>> >> >> ** so increasing drive will not eventually cause grid current in a
>well
>> >> >> designed AB1 amp?
>> >> >
>> >> >it can't. If it can then it is an AB2 amp.
>> >> >
>> >> So an AB1 amp can be AB2 if it is overdriven, and an AB2 amp can be an
>> >> AB1 amp if it underdriven?
>> >
>> >Nonsense.
>> >
>> ** please explain
>
>You can build an audio amp or modulator that is capacitively coupled
>to the grids of the output tube and there is nothing you can do to drive
>it into AB2 (grid current).
How is DC grid bias applied to the grids?
>You have to DC couple it or use a transformer to
>drive it into grid current.
>
>Either the circuit supports AB2 or it doesn't.
>
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>> >>
>> >> How would you design an AB1 amp that can not be overdriven?
>> >>
>> >> - Rich..., 805.386.3734, www.vcnet.com/measures.
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>> - Rich..., 805.386.3734, www.vcnet.com/measures.
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- Rich..., 805.386.3734, www.vcnet.com/measures.
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