Did I make the cheapest DIY amplifier?

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Ай бұрын

6 layer PCB FAB+Assembly - ONLY $2! :jlcpcb.com/?from=LeftyMaker
I wanted to make a cheap DIY amplifier, so I found the cheapest amplifier IC and built an audio amp around it. Could this be the cheapest DIY amplifier you can make? The final price will surprise you!
My homemade amplifier is based around the FM8002A chip, which costs just 4 cents apiece. Since it is an SMD component, the chip needs a printed circuit board to work, so I designed one and had it manufactured by JLCPCB.
I gathered the rest of the components from LCSC.com and assembled the amplifier by hand using my soldering station. Soldering SMD components seems challenging at first, but it is really not if you are patient and use parts that are large enough.
The result: after a few tweaks to the design, I had a great-sounding, albeit low-power audio amplifier that cost well below a dollar to put together. Thanks for watching!
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@LeftyMaker Ай бұрын

Let me know if you think I could have made it cheaper :D (Links to parts and tools are in the video description)

@SattarM-ju3dv Ай бұрын

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@bob_mosavo Ай бұрын

Thanks 👍

@Donkey1793 Ай бұрын

Hi ! Really cool project :) I try to use less and less Tantalum capacitors because of the Tantalum extraction procedures and their high cost. It would be interesting to know the effect of replacing the 1uF Tantalum capacitor with a ceramic one ! Good job again :)

@LeftyMaker Ай бұрын

Hmm, never considered this about tantalum. I can probably test what happens if I replace it with a ceramic one

@burtburtist Ай бұрын

Very good!

@crazyfurnaceguy1229 Ай бұрын

Use 4ohm speaker instead of 8ohm speaker , it can up to 2 watts output but recommend electrolytic cap on power rail for peak output current (if insufficient current condition)

@daisymo2959 Ай бұрын

Wow !

@questionman5 Ай бұрын

Cool video! Per the Analog article, it would be interesting to know if tapping on the cap would introduce any signal from the vibration. Also curious, for JLC boards, how did you split them apart? Never ordered a panelized board.

@LeftyMaker Ай бұрын

I can try tapping on it and see what happens. About the boards, there is a "Panelize" option in EasyEDA. You just specify how many copies you want and that is it

@Gunbudder Ай бұрын

i'd love to know how long it lasts under load! i recently bought a very VERY cheap amp built almost exactly like this one, and it lasted about 2 hours of normal use before it died completely. looks like the chip itself failed internally

@LeftyMaker Ай бұрын

I've had them on at full power for a few minutes at a time and I've been playing with them for about a week. No failures so far, but if anything changes, I'll post here

@SianaGearz Ай бұрын

These have made their rounds on cheap Bluetooth speaker boards, i've seen this chip. Mhm thanks to SD feature, i might even find a use for it, but realistically i probably want a PAM8302A instead. Or Fuman's own TC6805.

@LeftyMaker Ай бұрын

Yup, both chips look interesting. Might try them too some day. I wonder how they make a profit. They cost pennies

@SianaGearz Ай бұрын

@@LeftyMaker I think they have a scheme, i don't think it's your typical profit oriented operation. Numerous grants from the People's Republic have been issued which have a strategic purpose to move semiconductor manufacturing inland and secure vital capability, and at some point a decade and a half ago simple linear-function and analogue switching ICs were a very important milestone, you start with low value products to be able to achieve higher value ones, now there are different more complex milestones to hit. Who knows they might have fabbed a billion chips because they could do this on public funds and are perhaps now just slowly selling them off. Also once you already have capacity to make linear ICs or somesuch, you're best off just letting it go brrrr no matter if it's technically losing money, because the secondary costs and externalities of shutting down the manufacturing may be higher. I'd love some sort of expert investigation into this, but a lot of these things particularly in China are anything but transparent.

@Velocity_AU Ай бұрын

This is pretty damn cool, I wonder how does it compare to an amp thats say 10 dollars? How much does price improve sound?

@LeftyMaker Ай бұрын

for 10$ you can buy something that can realistically put out 10 watts, so the biggest difference will be the output power and thus volume (which for many people means quality too :D I assume the fidelity will be better too, yet that's a bit more difficult to measure and appreciate

@Velocity_AU Ай бұрын

@LeftyMaker would something that's $10 be comparable in size as well as quality I wonder. I might need to try making one myself at some point