Jorge93
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Question about Audio Jack spec from Raspberry Pi 3

Fri Feb 28, 2020 3:30 pm

Hello guys, i have some doubt about the power specification of jack 3.5mm audio output. I was searching in google and i got some links like this:

https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/q ... dio-output
viewtopic.php?t=76636

I am not sure if this information is official, can someone help me with that?

Thanks for read!

Regards.

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Burngate
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Re: Question about Audio Jack spec from Raspberry Pi 3

Fri Feb 28, 2020 7:09 pm

Almost nothing there is official, and things have moved on in the intervening six years.

However, if you look at the reduced schematic at https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... educed.pdf you'll see that it's driven from an amplifier, powered from 3v3 and gnd.
That means it cannot produce more than 3v3 p-p.

That's followed by a low-pass filter divider chain, and if you work out its characteristics you find that it's, as I said all those eons ago,
Burngate wrote:
Thu May 08, 2014 10:08 am
About 1v p-p or 0.35v RMS, from 100Ω.

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