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Subject: LF: Single Stage Class-B
From: Andy Talbot <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 17:31:11 +0000
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Whilst out walking and pondering, as one does....

There are hundreds of designs out there for  linear power amps using FETS.  They all use a similar design, push-pull with centre tapped ferrite cored transformers at input and output, often with resistive feedback - and all broadband.   The design is so standard it's become tedious ... and as I don't do tedious, it made me think:

Back in days of yore when those big bottles ruled the roost ,  apart from a few designs for UHF, they were all single ended.

So, why not a single ended MOSFET amp (for single band operation)?   We're used to seeing single device  for class-E, where the tank circuit does much of the waveform cleaning, and reduces the low pass filter requirements.    So what's wrong with a tank-based  design for class-B?

A single ended amp can even be made ferrite free (although a final stage DC feed choke would no doubt benefit from it).   Apart from a few very low power designs, I don't recall seeing any designs for single band ferrite free linear amps using power MOSFETS. 
Only major downsides I visualise is that load resistance at the device is 4 times lower for the same Vdd and Pout , and device dissipation is doubled

Has no one ever bothered, because broadband transformer push-pull is so straightforward?
Has a trick been missed?  

Andy  G4JNT


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