Cigarette Amp

This circuit is a clone of the Smokey amp, a great low-wattage guitar amp great for
practicing without waking up the neighbors or babies. Based on the 386 chip, it is
amazingly simple: the chip and two capacitors supply about half of watt of steaming
power. Note that the output on this circuit is not going to be your amplifier or another a b c d e f g h i j
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pedal. It is a power amp design, so the output will be a speaker. 1 1
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Input LM386 5
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Hooking up a Speaker 14 14
This circuit is designed to power an 8 ohm speaker, but will also work on 4 ohms or 16 ohms. 15 15
Because the power output is so low (on the order of 500mW) you can hook it up to just about out 16 16
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any type of speaker without worry about damaging anything. 17 + 17
Using a Guitar Cab 18 18
The amp sounds best hooked up to a guitar speaker, so if you have a speaker cab, hook it up 19 19
there. Simply run a ¼” mono cable between the i/o breakout box’s output jack and the input jack 20 20
on your cab. 21 21
Using a Small Speaker 22 22
If you have a small speaker, you can connect it either directly to the breadboard, or if the 23 23
speaker’s wires are too big, use the terminal strip on the main board. Run one wire from ground 24 24
on the breadboard to one of the terminal strips. Run the output wire from the breadboard to 25 25
another screw on the terminal strip and connect it as shown below: 26 26
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output revision: 1.1 ● 13 june 2008 ● © 2008 beavis audio research
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