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Subwoofer for Cars s.c. dwiv

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TL072 (IC1), car radio power ampli-
fier TDA8561Q (IC2) and transistors
BC547 (T1 and T2). IC2 has two 24W
Karunesh Shukla BTL output channels, one of which is
connected to loudspeaker LS1. BTL

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his system needs to be at- package. It contains 4×12W single- is an output configuration for  audio
tached to an existing car stereo ended (SE) or 2×24W bridge-tied load amplifiers, a form of impedance bridg-
amplifier to add extra ‘boom (BTL) amplifiers. The output speaker is ing where two channels of a stereo
effect’ to the music. It has a dedicated connected in BTL configuration in this amplifier are fed the same audio signal,
loudspeaker with a power amplifier system for better quality. with one channel’s electrical polar-
to boost low frequencies that are nor- ity reversed. Such an arrangement can
mally omnidirectional. Circuit and working double the voltage swing at the load.
The power amplifier used is an Fig. 1 shows the circuit diagram of sub- Both channels from the car stereo
integrated class-B output amplifier in woofer for cars. It is built around low- are fed to the system through connec-
a 17-lead single-in-line (SIL) power noise JFET-input operational amplifiers tors RCA1 and RCA2. Audio from both
the channels is mixed after
VR2 = 10K DUAL GANG POTMETER level control. After mixing,
C1 TP1
INPUT R1 R3 TP2
LEFT 1K 4.7u 10K R11 the signals are fed to the buff-
15K VR2
RCA1 R12 15K er stage implemented with
R10 47K
R2 R7
op-amp A1 of IC1 and the
10K 100K
S1B 0 1 OUT1 Vcc 8
C5 68n output phase can be reversed
GND
TP0
PHASE CONTROL 2 IN1 OUT2 7 using switch S1A and S1B.
R14 47K
INPUT R4 C2 R6 S1A
3
A1 IN2 6
This control can be useful to
RIGHT 1K 4.7u 10K
allow the subwoofer to be in
IN1 A2
4 GND 5
RCA2 C3 R9 IN2
R13
R5 VR1
4.7u 47K
R8 IC1 TL072 47K phase with the loudspeakers
C4
10K 10K
LOW PASS 100K C6
68n of the existing car radio.
4.7u
LEVEL FREQUENCY
A 12dB octave variable
ALL ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS ARE OF 25V
frequency low-pass filter
S2
R17 T2
R15 (LPF) built around op-amp
TDA8561Q 47K
ON/OFF IC2 BC547 47K A2 of IC1, transistor T1 and
SWITCH
VDIAG

related components allows

MODE
−INV1

GND1

GND2
OUT1

OUT2

OUT3

OUT4
GND
INV2

INV3

−IN4
VP1

VP2

R19
RR

NC

R18
T1
1.5K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 10K
BC547
to adjust precisely (using
CON1
14.4V
C12
C7
33n
dual-gang potmeter VR2)
2200u
DC 35V
LS1 TP3 the low-pass frequencies
8−ohm C10 C9 R16 C8
LED1
C11
100n 24W WOOFER 220n 220u 6.8K 220u between 70Hz and 150Hz. Re-
POWER
sistor R17, capacitor C9 and
GND
transistor T2 form a simple
Fig. 1: Circuit diagram of the subwoofer for cars DC voltage stabiliser for the
input and filter circuitry. The
filtered output is fed to inputs INV3
and -IN4 of power amplifier IC2, and
the amplified output can be heard at
LS1. The power supply of the circuit is
14.4V obtained from car battery. The
logarithmic potmeter VR1 is used to
control volume level.

Test Points
Test point Details
TP0 GND
TP1 14.4V
TP2 Mixed audio input
TP3 Input to IC2
Fig. 2: An actual-size, single-side PCB for the subwoofer

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