* Connections: Plate
* | Grid
* | | Cathode
* | | |
.SUBCKT WE300B P G K
E1 2 0 VALUE={V(P,K)+3.87*V(G,K)}
Gp P K VALUE={119.5E-6*(PWR(V(2),1.5)+PWRS(V(2),1.5))/2}
Cgk G K 9.0P
Cgp G P 15P
Cpk P K 4.3P
.ENDS WE300B
I managed to crunch the numbers for a simple circuit
yielding the following equation:
y+y^(2/3)/0.242-67.8-3.87x=0
where x is the input voltage and y the output voltage. After putting this into wolframalpha (http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=y%2By^%282%2F3%29%2F0.242-300%2B232.2-3.87x%3D0) I got the following graph:
To my surprise it is exactly what I expected. Namely to have a nonlinear function which when plotted would seem almost linear. After running the model in TINA with a 5V pure sine input and doing a fourier series analysis on the output a 2.63% harmonic distortion can be observed. Another interesting and expected fact is that this distortion increases with the amplitude of the signal. Now I have built my own kit and have set it up:
I should start soon the analysis of the signal in Matlab and see if it checks with my observations. It should be noted however that the circuit for the real tube amplifier is much more complex. Simply by adding a rectified DC source introduces a new noise which would be very difficult to model mathematically. So I would expect a qualitative similarity rather than a quantitative one.
