De La Salle University - Dasmarinas

College of Engineering, Architecture

and Technology
Technology Department

AUDIO AMPLIFIER

Submitted by:
ALAS, Herald Joseph
AQUINO, Angel
GALERO, Hennesey Lourice
MANALAYSAY, Van Jerico
PONCE de LEON, Jonel

Submitted to:
Ms. Mary Grace Virata

27 OCTOBER 2015

I.

INTRODUCTION

For the 2015 1st semester the class project for INTC123 was to design a
discrete audio amplifier. The objective of this lab experiment was to design,
fabricate, analyze, and test an original audio power amplifier. A power amplifier
circuit is used to increase the performance of the sound source, thus making it
louder. In general, the purpose of an amplifier is to take an input signal and make it
stronger or increase its amplitude. So a fairly high-quality audio amplifier takes in a
small signal and amplifies it to sufficiently drive a speaker, without distorting the
original signal. The power amp makes sure that there is enough current so the load
does not sag" the voltage at the output. Power amplifiers are used for high
performance power management. They can very easily take an ordinary sound
system and make it an extraordinary sound system.
II.

OPERATION
The LM386 IC is a low voltage audio power amplifier with a default voltage
gain of 20, which can however be increased to any value between 20 and 200 by
simply placing an external series RC circuit between pins 1 and 8.So pin 1 and 8
are gain controlling pins. In the amplifier circuit, the output AC power is clearly
larger than the input AC power reflecting the voltage, and thus power, gain. The
increase in AC power in going from the input terminals of the amplifier to the
output terminals are provided by the DC voltage source biasing the circuit. In the
case of the LM386 IC, the operating DC power source must have a voltage
between 4V and 12V and supply a current of 100mA. So I provide it a power
supply of 9 volt and 220mA. These values of DC voltage and current are readily
provided by a battery so that an audio amplifier based on the LM386 IC is very
much amenable to battery operation.
VU meter circuit is an IC number LM3914. This is a circuit that is
commonly used standards. Within the integrated circuit LM3914 is a voltage range
advantage. This is the fourth leg split. Reference voltage pin 6 is low, and the
reference voltage divided up. When raising the power supply circuit and the signal
came, the sound signal to be via D1 Optical Direct Fire only split the signal to
positive The C1 and R1 signal smoothing filter. Then, light is sent through R2 to
access the input pin 5 of IC by the IC to the display of the signal starts from the
output pin 1 or LED1 contiguous to the leg 10 or LED10. You can choose form of
a display 2. is a bar display and the display. Select use the switch S1. VR1 which
acts on the set voltage reference ICs and R3 of the output current limiting
function. If the value at which R3 LED1-LED10 are very bright.

III.

CIRCUIT DIAGRAM

GRAPHIC EQUALIZER

FILTER

VU METER

IV.

PCB LAYOUT

V.

AUTOCAD

VI.

COSTING

MATERIALS
IC
Resistors

Capacitors

VALUE
LM3914
1k
5k
120k
1.5k
560
10k
50k
100k
3.6k
1.8k
5.6k
500k
180
3.3f
100 f
100nf
2.2nf
47 f
22 f
100pf
0.22 f
0.0039 f
0.022 f
122
392

QUANTITY
x8
x60
x10
x10
x10
x10
x15
x10
x15
x10
x10
x10
x10
x5
x10
x5
x10
x1
x4
x4
x4
x3
x3
x3
x3
x3

PRICE
135
0.25
0.25
0.25
0.25
0.25
0.25
0.25
0.25
0.25
0.25
0.25
0.25
0.25
1.50
1.50
0.50
0.50
1.00
1.00
0.50
0.50
0.50
0.50
4.00
3.00

TOTAL
1080
15
2.50
2.50
2.50
2.50
3.75
2.50
3.75
2.50
2.50
2.50
2.50
1.25
15
7.50
5.00
0.50
4.00
4.00
2.00
1.50
1.50
1.50
12
9

LED
Diode
PCB
Potentiomet
er
Female
header
Ic holder
Casing
Speaker

123
683
50nf
5nf
Red
Green
IN4148
6x12
500k

x3
x3
x4
x5
x30
x30
x8
x5
x10

3.00
5.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
0.50
230
20

9
15
8
10
60
60
4
1150
200

x10

20

200

x20

15

x2

300

300
1500
600

TOTAL COST: 5,305.75

VII.

ACTUAL PICTURE