Electronic – Understanding the trancitor (transfer capacitor)

Your basic concept is OK, but you need to think about some details. You are essentially using push-pull emitter followers to get a lot of current gain but otherwise not so great characteristics, then a opamp and closed loop feedback around the whole mess to fix the problems.

Again, that's not necessarily a bad concept for a assignment like this. However:

1. You only need a gain of 100. There is no point making things more difficult by exceeding that by 10x. I'd go a bit above the minimum to make sure the specs are met, but otherwise going way beyond specs is a waste. Lots of gain has drawbacks too.

2. Yes the feedback will fix a lot of sins of the basic emitter follower power amp. But, the opamp is a real-world device, so it won't correct for everything perfectly. Look for simple ways to make the basic power amp more linear. For example, note the instantaneous jump the opamp output voltage must make when transitioning between driving high and driving low. Think about how you might be able to lessen the two diode drop jump.

3. Your output current capability is basically the opamp output current times the gain of the transistors. You need to look those up and then compare to the maximum your load requires.

   If what you have can't supply enough current, then you need more current gain between the opamp and the output. Think about how you can use two transistors on each side to get more current gain, but not make the voltage gap at crossover even worse than it already is.

As shown when comparing 38 and 60 LEDs, the "dropper" cap size affects the current capability of the circuit, so I recommend using one larger than the recommended for the 60 LEDs. Also, I would recommend a "smoothing cap of at least 47uf 400v, or as large as you can get and fit in the space available. I believe these changes will remove the flicker.

The warning Russell posted cannot be overlooked.