/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1439602
Well it's a bit better now. I appear to have a gain of about 288, which still seems low and the DC voltage on the output node is still 11.3V. If I put in a signal a bit over 1mVpk the top starts to clip, the bottom is fine for a bit until the output hits the 1.25V at the emitter. I really wish that output node would be at that 6.3V point so it could accommodate larger input swings. Increasing the tail current seems to increase the gain a bit, going from 150uA to 1.15mA brought the gain to 377 and dropped the output DC voltage to 11.2V. I could probably get it to 6.3V with enough tail current but it drops so slow it'd probably take over an 1A or something ridiculous like that.