[sdiy] Experimental VCA RFC

[Jerry Gray-Eskue]

Request for Comments:

This is a link to a VCA design I have been working on using H11A1 Optos as
voltage controlled resistors.
This includes a PSpice schematic for the core, and two PSpice plots at 20
and 60 degrees C.
The biggest design challenge is keeping the circuit from being effected by
temperature changes, U3D uses the Thermistor NTC3 for this purpose.
U1C is just the signal in buffer, U4A,U5 and U6 are the control /
attenuation circuit. R15 sets the current per voltage in for the LEDs of the
Optos. U4B is a just a spare at the moment.
The Schematic shows H11A2s which seem to share the same PSpice model with
the H11A1.

In the plots the Green line is the envelope voltage, the red line is signal
out.
The signal in not shown is 1000hz at +-5v
 

http://myweb.cableone.net/ankh/VCA.htm

Jerry Gray-Eskue