Electrical – Need help with a 3 stage amplifier

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I am working on my final project for class and am STUCK!
I am to design a 3 stage circuit with stage 1 and 2 using a 2N3904 transistor in a votlage divider config. and stage 3 using a darlington transistor in a voltage divider configuration leading to an 8 ohm speaker. I have stage 3 of the configuration done and I get the correct wattage out of the 8ohm speaker. But for the life of me I cant figure out how to determine the values for the resistors in stage 1 and 2 to give me the correct Vb in stage 3. Where do I start these calculations?Example of the circuit I am suppose to follow

Best Answer

The resistors in stages 1 and 2 don't set \$V_{B}\$ for the third state...R2 and R3 do that. The stages are capacitively coupled so the biasing resistors in each stage set the transistor bias point for that stage.