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SERIES GRID-LEAK BIAS
CLASS AB OPERATION

Neets Module 06-Introduction to Electronic Emission, Tubes, and Power Supplies
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1-36 Figure 1-26.—Series grid-leak biasing. In summary, grid-leak bias causes the grid to draw current when the input signal goes positive. This grid current (which is a negative charge) is stored by the coupling capacitor (Cc,) which will keep the grid at some negative potential. It is this potential that biases the tube. Q21. What type of bias requires constant current flow through the cathode circuit of a triode? Q22. When a circuit uses cathode biasing, the input signal can cause variations in the biasing level How is this problem eliminated? Q23. In a circuit using grid-leak biasing, the coupling capacitor (Cc) charges through a low resistance path. What resistance is used in this charge path? Q24. Grid-leak biasing in effect rectifies the input ac signal. What feature of the circuit is used to accomplish this rectification? OPERATING CLASSIFICATIONS OF TUBE AMPLIFIERS While the discussion of amplifiers will be covered in detail in later NEETS modules, some discussion of the classes of operation of an amplifier is needed at this point. This is because their operation class is directly determined by the bias voltage of the tube. The classification of amplifiers by operation is based on the percentage of the time that the tube conducts when an input signal is applied. Under this system amplifiers may be divided into four main classes: A, AB, B, and C. CLASS A OPERATION An amplifier biased into Class A operation, is one in which conduction through the tube occurs throughout the duration of the input signal. Such an amplifier is shown in figure 1-27, view A. This is the same type of circuit with which you are already familiar. Notice when you compare the input to the output that the tube is always conducting, and that the entire input signal is reproduced at the output.






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