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Would NE5532 work in this circuit? I have no LME2141 in my country.

The LME2141 is not available anywhere because nobody makes it. You have the wrong letters.

The TLE2141 is made by the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer, Texas Instruments, and should be available everywhere.
It was selected because its maximum supply is 44V, its inputs work at 0V without a negative supply and its output goes down to almost 0V.

The NE5532 also has a maximum 44V supply but its inputs do not work below 3V and its output does not go below 2V so the circuit and spec's for the project must be changed for it to be used. 
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Ops, sorry, I was thinking in another piece at the time.  :P

Not even farnell have this one in DIP socket here.

I will have to find something similar to this.


Edit.
I requested samples from TI, let's see what I get. :D

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Ops, sorry, I was thinking in another piece at the time.  :P

Not even farnell have this one in DIP socket here.

I will have to find something similar to this.




Then build it with the SOIC 8 package.  You will have a choice between  the TLE2141 or the MC34071.
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Hello all,

That's a very nice initiative + community + development here in this post.  Congratulations to all of you!!!

I will start to build my PS soon, and I have a quick question.  In case I make two of them, as liquibyte did  ---  Does the short-circuit protection will still working across the + 0 - outputs?  Or will it blow up in case of short-circuit between the + and - output, or even between the +/- and the zero?

Thanks
Ricardo

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When you make two completely separate supplies, one can be 0V to +30V and the other can be 0V to -30V. If one or both outputs are shorted to 0v then that supply will safely regulate its output current to the amount of current that is set at.
The supplies have no protection from an output voltage or current of the wrong polarity so if +30V is shorted to -30V then one or both supplies might blow up.

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When you make two completely separate supplies, one can be 0V to +30V and the other can be 0V to -30V. If one or both outputs are shorted to 0v then that supply will safely regulate its output current to the amount of current that is set at.
The supplies have no protection from an output voltage or current of the wrong polarity so if +30V is shorted to -30V then one or both supplies might blow up.


Thanks.  In that regard,  a dual supply with a central-tap transformer (like this one http://www.electronics-lab.com/projects/power/030/index.html) would be more 'fail proof'?  Or will blowup / smoke exactly like?  My goal is to work with audio in hobby projects (preamps, amplifiers etc)


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I have never seen a power audio amplifier that needs a regulated dual-polarity supply. They use a center-tapped transformer, bridge rectifier and two big filter capacitors.

If you build two of this project and power them from a center-tapped transformer, joining the projects at the tap then I think the negative supply in each project will not work properly.

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I have never seen a power audio amplifier that needs a regulated dual-polarity supply. They use a center-tapped transformer, bridge rectifier and two big filter capacitors.

If you build two of this project and power them from a center-tapped transformer, joining the projects at the tap then I think the negative supply in each project will not work properly.


Sorry, I want a dual PS to use in the bench.  I've build some power amplifiers and might use the PS just for testing them during repair.  I'm just trying to find one more 'fail proof' to short circuits, nothing else.

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A transformer with a dual 28V secondary winding will do.

D11 will protect the output in case of reverse polarity.

Another diode can be placed with the anode on +Vout and the cathode to the positive of the bridge rectifier to protect against brief positive high voltage spikes entering +V. You could also consider a transorb across the bridge rectifier to protect against transients.

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The corrected and improved circuit used MC34071 or uses TLE2141 SINGLE opamps. They have a case that has 8 pins. The single opamps have 2 of the pins for the input offset voltage adjustment trimpot used on opamp U2. The MC34071 single opamp is not available anymore as a through holes type and is now only available as a surface-mount type.

If you use the MC34074 QUAD opamp (it has 4 opamps in its 14 pins case) then all the pins numbers must be changed on the schematic, a different pcb must be designed and it will probably overheat. Its opamps do not have input offset voltage adjustment pins.

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You must properly disable the opamps you will not be using. Even though they are not used their idle current causes heating in opamp U2 which might be too high.

The opamps in an MC34074 have a maximum input offset voltage of 5mV so when the voltage setting pot of this project is set to zero volts, the gain of opamp U2 will cause the output to be from -15.4mV to +15.4mV.

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Picmaster's pcb is perfect.


audioguru, redwire in an old post talk about some issue with the power supply. It generate some output ripple at both startup and  shutdown. He resolved this issue by changing U1 and associated components by an integrated 12V linrear regulator.

Do you think that U1 was the problem ?
Is there any other solution to this issue?
Is there any new schematics using this new regulator?
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audioguru, redwire in an old post talk about some issue with the power supply. It generate some output ripple at both startup and  shutdown. He resolved this issue by changing U1 and associated components by an integrated 12V linrear regulator.

Do you think that U1 was the problem ?
Is there any other solution to this issue?
Is there any new schematics using this new regulator?

I do not see why the U1 voltage reference would cause a voltage spike when powered or shutdown. If it did then it would be attenuated by R8 and C4 on my schematic.
You can use a 12V linear regulator IC instead if you want.
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audioguru, redwire in an old post talk about some issue with the power supply. It generate some output ripple at both startup and  shutdown. He resolved this issue by changing U1 and associated components by an integrated 12V linrear regulator.

Do you think that U1 was the problem ?
Is there any other solution to this issue?
Is there any new schematics using this new regulator?


Hi EmbeddedCom,  I built a smd version of this PS and it seemed to work fine, except I finally bought an oscillosope and started testing things and noticed a ripple at start up and shut down.  I always wanted to try a linear regulator instead of U1 so i built another smd board.  I didn't not observe the ripple on the board with the linear regulator.  Well ,this leaves a lot of reasons why the previous board had ringing. 1) Bad solder joint; 2) bad component 3) interference on board 4) bad layout,  and this list goes on.  I requested others who have built the board and have a oscilloscope to test their boards and report the findings. No one has yet.  If just one person reports back that they have no ringing then it is likely a individual problem.  I am not convinced that the linear regulator was the fix or that there is anything wrong with the current design.          The good news is that the only smd part that gets fairly hot is the resistor for "power on" led.  No problem with the smd op amps. 
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Hi EmbeddedCom,  I built a smd version of this PS and it seemed to work fine, except I finally bought an oscillosope and started testing things and noticed a ripple at start up and shut down.  I always wanted to try a linear regulator instead of U1 so i built another smd board.  I didn't not observe the ripple on the board with the linear regulator.  Well ,this leaves a lot of reasons why the previous board had ringing. 1) Bad solder joint; 2) bad component 3) interference on board 4) bad layout,  and this list goes on.  I requested others who have built the board and have a oscilloscope to test their boards and report the findings. No one has yet.  If just one person reports back that they have no ringing then it is likely a individual problem.  I am not convinced that the linear regulator was the fix or that there is anything wrong with the current design.          The good news is that the only smd part that gets fairly hot is the resistor for "power on" led.  No problem with the smd op amps. 


I don't have a DSO so I can't really see much more than what I have is capable of but I do see spikes on power on and off when I have an old analog hooked up across the output.  I haven't had much time to implement some of the suggestions offered for mitigating this due to other things taking up my time.  I was hoping that you'd found out the cause and figured out a way to fix it, or at least minimize it.  The boards I did do work extremely well except for that one issue.
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I don't have a DSO so I can't really see much more than what I have is capable of but I do see spikes on power on and off when I have an old analog hooked up across the output.  I haven't had much time to implement some of the suggestions offered for mitigating this due to other things taking up my time.  I was hoping that you'd found out the cause and figured out a way to fix it, or at least minimize it.  The boards I did do work extremely well except for that one issue.


Thanks for the feedback. 
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I finished my power supply!

Just a little problem, when my current pot is on minimum, the LED turn on, without any load on the output. Adjusting the trimpot doesn't help.

My BD139 was without the heatsink and fried when I put a big load.  ;D
Isn't more safe a greater power transistor?

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Now I understand better, thank you for the clarification.

I put 68 ohms and resolved that.  :)

BTW, Texas send me 3 samples of the tle2141, it's a good choice for who is having trouble finding it.

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Now I understand better, thank you for the clarification.

I put 68 ohms and resolved that.  :)

BTW, Texas send me 3 samples of the tle2141, it's a good choice for who is having trouble finding it.

I am glad that increasing the value of R17 fixed your problem and it is wonderful that you received samples of the opamps.
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