
LM380 2.5 WATT
AMPLIFIER
INSTRUCTION
SHEET
Price - Stock No 410
Price - Stock No 411
(100mm Speaker)
Check your
kit


Schematic Diagram

PCB Layout

Check Your Kit
- Make a visual check of the P.C.Board to ensure no damage has
happened in transit. Continuity of the tracks can be checked
with a multimeter or an electronic Circuit Tester. Any
breaks can be bridged with solder.
- Turn the Board over, track down, and push the
14 pin I.C. socket into place.
- Identify the resistors either by their colour bands, or with a
multimeter. Bend the legs to match their holes and assemble
them. It is a good idea to solder progressively as 4 or 5
components are mounted to the board.
- The 50K trimpot will fit the three holes in the board D 1.2mm. Push the
legs right down.
- There are five electrolytic capacitors,three 2u2 and two 470uF. On each
body you will find an arrow pointing down one leg. This leg is the -ve
pole. From the drawing find the + and/or - signs and mount the
capacitors in their correct positions. Bend the legs on the
back to hold them in place and solder.
- Six pins are in the Kit. These are soldered into the four 1mm
holes where the Input wires and the Speaker wires terminate, and two to
connect wires to the ON/OFF switch. Strip the ends of the Fig.8
wire, tin them, and solder to the pins. Usually the wire with the
"trace" in the insulation is used for the Positive poles. Find the + and
- signs on the speaker and solder in the polarity
shown in the diagram. The jack can be connected to the input lead, but
join the terminals of the two channels together with a short
wire. This is done because the AMP is MONO only and it will amplify both
channels into one speaker. Stereo jacks have two small black rings in the
shiny shank.
- Turn the board over ready to mount the battery holder. Build a
small amount of solder on the track at the two donuts,
but keep the holes clear. Next heat the legs close up to the plastic and
build some solder to each leg. Push the battery holder home and touch
the tip to the piles of solder. They will fuse easily an hold
the battery holder in place.
- The LM380 I.C. is packed in an antistat case. You will
find that the legs are slightly wide to fit the socket. Turn it on its
side on a flat surface and gently push down to bend the
legs together a little. Repeat for the other side, and offer
it into the socket. When it is ready to slide
into the socket:
- find the locating DOT on the top of the chip near one end. Make sure
the DOT is where the diagram shows.
- use gentle pressure to push it home. I.C. Inserting
tools are available. They make the process of
pushing the I.C. into the socket much easier.
You are now ready to test your Amplifier. Connect a 9V battery and plug
the jack into the output socket of your machine. Adjust the volume of your
radio to a comfortable level and use a small screwdriver
to adjust the trimpot to get clean undistorted sound from the speaker.
Speakers work best in an airtight box made of particle
board or similar, and glued together. The
hole for the speaker in the front panel of the box should be a neat size to suit
the speaker, and can be covered with speaker cloth to
give a neat finish. Your Library will likely have information about
Speaker Boxes that you can research before you
design your box.
MORE INFORMATION
View the Datasheet for the LM380.
TROUBLESHOOTING
If the Amp doesn't work check the following:
- polarity of all five electrolytic capacitors.
- the locating DOT on the LM 380 Chip is as the diagram shows.
- the two resistor values are as the diagram shows.
- carefully prise out the I.C. to check that no
legs have been bent up under the body instead of into the
socket. Replace it with care.
- remove the battery holder and check all
soldering. Re-solder any joints that look suspicious, making sure
that the solder takes to the track as well as to the legs.
- remove the end of the jack and check the soldering. Also
connect your Amp to another radio to try to
isolate the problem.
This is an extremely reliable circuit
which presents no real difficulty in putting together, so in most
cases the Amp will work first up.
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