John Coppens wrote:
>> If you design a 50-60 Hz sinusoidal generator and feed it to an op amp
>> and then to a complementary symmetry pair and take the output from the
>> common emitters, then, if you put the 120 VDC across the collectors
>> (PNP to the minus side) you should get 120 VAC output between the
>> collector of the PNP complement and the emitter junction.
>
> You'd get 85V AC. Remember AC is specified as RMS - so the peaks of AC
> are 1.41 times greater,

But they extend both positive and negative.  From the center of the AC
signal the peaks would be +60 and -60, which is 42V RMS for a sine wave.


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