Hi there,
I recently assembled my wave shield and I got everything working properly. However even if I'm on the highest volume setting, I find that the speaker is still a little too quiet for my liking. I was wondering if you guys would have any ideas or suggestions as to how to make the speaker sound louder. I was thinking of using a power transistor to boost the current gain being driven to the speaker, is this a good idea? The speaker I am using has the following specs: 8 ohm impedence, response between 200Hz to 10KHz and rated for 1W.
Wave Shield + Increasing Speakers Volume
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- adafruit_support_bill
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Re: Wave Shield + Increasing Speakers Volume
One of these will do the job: https://www.adafruit.com/search?q=class%20d
Or, if you have a pair of powered computer or MP3 speakers, you can plug those right into the shield output.
Or, if you have a pair of powered computer or MP3 speakers, you can plug those right into the shield output.
- kevin.khan
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Re: Wave Shield + Increasing Speakers Volume
Hi there,
Thank you for the suggestions. I was also thinking about using a transistor connected to the speaker to apply a current gain. Do you think this would work to increase the volume of the speaker?
Thank you for the suggestions. I was also thinking about using a transistor connected to the speaker to apply a current gain. Do you think this would work to increase the volume of the speaker?
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Re: Wave Shield + Increasing Speakers Volume
I'm sure it can be done with a transistor. We do not have any tutorials or schematics for a raw transistor-based solution. But if you search the web for "transistor audio amplifier circuit" there are plenty of designs out there.
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