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Offline botcrusherTopic starter

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Unidentified chip from cheap phone amplifier
« on: March 05, 2016, 06:34:06 pm »
I've got this battery powered amplifier that sounds surprisingly fine and is rather loud when hooked up to a 6 Ohm HK195 driver salvaged from pc speakers, but the only visible chip on the thing aside from some 1AM transistors is a TA8803N - HT110609
The closest thing i can find is this: TA8800N

Seems like a rather odd chip to use?

attached is a pic of the board in question:
The only component on the reverse side is a 220uf 6V capacitor connected directly to the power in, which used to be 3xAAA but i've since attached a usb lead to it. If anyone wants a pic of the reverse side to see all the traces, by all means i'll post it.

Edit: oh, right. Power button is middle, volume up is left, volume down is right (board is upside-down so chip is readable)
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Online Andy Watson

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Re: Unidentified chip from cheap phone amplifier
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2016, 06:41:32 pm »
 

Offline botcrusherTopic starter

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Re: Unidentified chip from cheap phone amplifier
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2016, 06:50:24 pm »
Perfect!
that makes a heck of a lot more sense than the other chip, thanks!
Now, i don't have an oscilloscope to get the full picture, but the "positive" lead for the speaker hits a max of -200mV on the loudest setting... it doesn't go positive at all.
 

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Re: Unidentified chip from cheap phone amplifier
« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2016, 12:15:17 am »
It claims to be a class-D amplifier, and it looks like it has a differential output too - without adding an appropriate filter the output signal will, more than likely, confuse a DVM. An analogue meter might show something sensible.
 


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