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oldcrow
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Santa arrived early, delivering my board order from BatchPCB. I got twice the charged quantity.
Left to right, they are:
1) My drop-in VCO153: drops into a Yamaha IG00153 DIP socket
2) My LM13600-to-CA3280 adapter: part of my research trying to revise my MOTM-480 to survive without the late and lamented CA3280.
3) My drop-in JH00151, a circuit the late JH and I discussed over the years: it replaces a Yamaha IG00151 VCA in various Yamaha gear...212 of them in a CS-80.
4) The dual SOT-363 transistor plus 0805 pads pinned to a DIL8.
Time to solder!
--Crow
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inlifeindeath
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very cool! is the 13700 adapter just to reroute pins or did you find you needed to modify to get the same response? i've been wondering if the statement that the 3280 has the best ota characteristics of the bunch, is in anyway based on fact or relevant in synth circuits.
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| inlifeindeath wrote: | | very cool! is the 13700 adapter just to reroute pins or did you find you needed to modify to get the same response? i've been wondering if the statement that the 3280 has the best ota characteristics of the bunch, is in anyway based on fact or relevant in synth circuits. |
It remaps the pinout so as to be able to plug a LM13x00/NE5517 into a CA3280 position.
CA3280 was the best because it had extra transistors in the amplifier bias current control, allowing 2mA Iabc (vs. the usual 1mA for a 13600). See
http://www.soiseek.com/INTERSIL/CA3280/2.htm and note the "totems" of transistors for the Id and Iabc (pins 1 and 3). 2mA of amplifier bias current means a 2:1 improvement in SNR vs. a 1mA Iabc part. The voltage input to an OTA is usually tiny, something like 3% of full scale voltage, so 5vpp becomes 150mV and the resulting output current of ~300uA at full Iabc needs less recovery gain in the summing amp/integrator the OTA is feeding, which means less amplified noise.
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awesome, thank you. so does that mean running the two sides of a 13700 in parallel would result in the same S/N ratio?
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| inlifeindeath wrote: | | awesome, thank you. so does that mean running the two sides of a 13700 in parallel would result in the same S/N ratio? |
This is what I am exploring. The question is can I achieve a better SNR with parallel cells, given that each cell will exhibit a similar SNR individually.
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