All You Need To Know About AMPLIFIERS To Fix Stuff – A Beginners Guide To Audio Amplifier Repair
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*NOTE TO BEGINNERS* This video is suitable for anyone with at least a basic knowledge of electronic components, particularly Transistors. If I covers topics here that you are not familiar with I strongly recommend you watch my other videos in the ‘All You Need To Know About’.. series first. In particular ‘All You Need To Know About Transistors To Fix Stuff’
You will find the other videos in this series here:
Mentioned in this video – No oscilloscope? No problem!
You can use a pair of amplified PC speakers or similar to aid in fault finding amplifiers
Hill Audio DX3000 Schematic and Service Manual
https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=106096
CHAPTERS
00:00:00 Introduction
00:08:10 Amplifier Classes
00:10:33 Class A Amplifiers
00:17:34 Class B Amplifiers
00:24:52 Class A/B Amplifiers
00:29:47 Class G & Class H Amplifiers
00:42:10 Bridge Mode
00:45:40 Class D Amplifiers
00:50:21 Test Equipment
1:04:38 What Goes Wrong
01:24:09 Practical Example
01:43:33 Epilogue
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