Euraudio PSSR350 specification
Welcome to the Euraudio PSSR350 specifications, in which you can read about the system requirements (application criteria), operation and technical data of the PSSR350.
The PSSR350 is a symmetrical power supply with an SPST ultra low distortion solid state relay (SSR) and with a ground loop breaker circuit. It was primarily designed for Euraudio's ultra low distortion power amplifiers, but can be used for other home-made audio amplifiers as well. Please find the PSSR350c assembly instructions here, which contains information about the sizing of the filter capacitors and fuses.
PSSR350 system requirements
What kind of amplifiers can the PSSR350 be used for?
It can be used for a single amplifier channel that needs a dual or in other words symmetric (+/-) supply voltage. You need as many PSSR350's as the number of the separately grounded channels is within your amplifier chassis, for example for a dual mono amplifier, you need two PSSR350's. If you want to use them in stereo amplifiers, then be careful, because the shared grounds may create a ground loop with possible hum ingress. Note: The PSSR350 can be used for the Euraudio LDA17 and LDA172 ultra low distortion, low noise audio amplifiers as well.
Up to what amplifier power can it be used?
The recommended maximum amplifier power is 250 W (speaking of class B or class AB amplifiers).
Protection board compatibility
For the SSR control, a protection board is required. PSSR350 is fully compatible with the Euraudio APBM and APBF protection circuit boards. If you have to use PSSR350 with the Euraudio APB, then two components need to be reversely mounted on the PSSR350 PCB, which is covered in the assembly instructions of the PSSR350.
If you wish to use the PSSR350 and its ultra low distortion SSR capability with a non-Euraudio Protection circuit board, then please contact me for the pinout of connector J92 through which you may be able to connect your own protection circuits.
Operation
The PSSR350 rectifies the two sinusoidal AC voltages connected to its input, then smooths it by using filter capacitors, thus generating the symmetric (+/-) supply voltage that is necessary for most audio amplifiers.
To void ground loops, the grounding of the PSSR350 has a star-like arrangement, furthermore the PSSR350 contains a so-called ground loop breaker circuit, which prevents hum from appearing through the earthing conductor, if devices with earth ground protection against electric shock are connected to your amplifier, and the chassis of your amplifier is also earthed.
The SSR circuit is controlled from a suitable protection board by a on/off voltage. If the protection board is disconnected, then the relay is off.
The SSR circuit uses a photovoltaic optocoupler to provide a floating gate voltage. The simplified SSR circuit can be seen in the following figure:
"AOUT" is the input of the SSR (amplifier output), "SPKHOT" is the output of the SSR (speaker hot terminal).
Technical data
At 25°C ambient temperature unless otherwise noted.
Supply current from the +12V supply: max. 40 mA (with an Euraudio APBF/APBM/APB connected)
Power Supply
Bridge rectifier input voltage: max. 2x50 VAC
Allowed continuous output
current at 60 °C ambient temperature: max. 10 A
Recommended amplifier power: max. 250 W (class B or class AB)
Size of applicable filter capacitors: snap-in type, max. 35 mm diameter
Solid State
Relay (SSR)
Switchable voltage: max. ±70 VDC; max. 50 VAC
Continuous current: max. 10 A (Ta=25°C); max. 7 A (Ta=75°C)
100 us pulse current before turn-off signal becomes active: max. 80 A (non-repetitive, Tcase,switching transistors=25°C)
Typical off-state attenuation on 4 ohms resistive load: >80 dB (1 kHz); 60 dB (20 kHz)
Turn-on time: < 1.2 ms
Turn-off time: < 400 us