LM3886 Amplifier Board

SpikedCola:
I made up a master board. It will attach to two slave boards (the other two amps). This look a bit better in terms of layout and trace size?

Yes! Much better. Still a couple of issues to address:

(1) You can’t use 25mil square pins for high power audio or DC

(2) You can’t place inputs and outputs of an amp on adjacent pins

(3) You can’t sum three amplifier modules into one as shown

Start by removing all the 25mil square pins and using

proper screw terminals rated to at least ten amps.

[Something like this.

For a 50Watt amplifier module you will draw about 75Watts

from the DC supplies. At sixty volts you have to deliver

over one amp without local heating or high inductance,

both of which reduce reliability.

Keep the input signal and it’s ground well away from

the output signal and power ground.

In the original design the three amplifier ICs were summed

with 200milliohm resistors, to a common load terminal. The

cables and connections to the summing point will need

to be much lower impedance (such as the fat trace/tracks

on the original board). If one (or two) go to a higher impedance

the remaining amplifier will be overloaded.](http://tinyurl.com/9casb2)