:lol: :lol: Hee, hee. My goodness does Maplin ever get things wrong, really wrong!
Quote: "This amplifier module achieves peak power at an operating voltage of 12Vdc with a 4‡; loudspeaker. With lower voltages and higher resistance loudspeakers, power will increase accordingly."
They talk about peak power, which is simply double the actual power, if the actual power is true. Then they say that the amp's power increases when its supply voltage decreases, which is backwards. They even say its power increases with a higher resistance load which is also backwards.
It sounds like a very dangerous amp, maybe nuclear. If it was turned off so that its supply voltage was zero, and its load was disconnected so it was an infinite resistance, then it would cause a meltdown at its location on our planet! They must have them all powered and loaded in their warehouse. Hee, hee. :lol: :lol:
The amp module costs about 24 times as much as an LM386 amp which can also drive many LEDs. The amp module needs an expensive preamp which is available on the LM386 by adding a cheap capacitor.