Activity for Olin Lathropâ€
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A: What we call this opamp configuration? [SOLVED] What we call this opamp configuration? A mess. What's the advantage and the disadvantage of this circuit? This can't be judged without the stated objectives. It might be useful for keeping undergrads busy trying to analyze this circuit. And what's the purpose of the L2 ... (more) |
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A: Audio OpAmp requirements The specs you need from an opamp in an audio circuit are somewhat dependent on the particular circuit. As you state, requirements of good audio circuits are high signal to noise ratio and low distortion, relative to many other analog circuits. The noise figure of an opamp is usually a fixed value... (more) |
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A: Why arc welding does not require high voltage to arc? It takes high voltage to start the arc. Once started, the air is ionized, and becomes fairly conductive. It then takes much less voltage to keep the current flowing to sustain the arc. This also explains why you have to touch the terminals together to start the arc. Touching shorts the output, ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285186 |
Oops, you're right. The actual schematic is correct, and the device works as expected, but I apparently didn't pay attention to the dots when drawing up this less-cluttered version. In the real schematic, the secondary is flipped. The top part is connected to ground, with the bottom end feeding th... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #287689 |
@Freewill Only **you** can answer that question. We don't know your application and therefore how tolerant it is to noise on the sine wave. This is one of the questions we've been asking you all along.
If you can't quantify the parameters we asked for, you can at least explain how you intend to ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #287689 |
*who want an inaccurate circuit* - The point is all circuits are inaccurate. You will always get an inaccurate circuit. The important question is then **how** inaccurate is tolerable. There is a wide spectrum of tradeoff between the various performance characteristics of a sine wave generator. Di... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #287689 |
*I finished by giving all information necessary to get helped:* - No you didn't. That's the problem.
*frequency range* - Yes, that's useful. That was clear in the question, so I didn't ask about it further.
*amplitude, current* - Those don't matter, because that would just be an issue for an... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #287689 |
@Freewill: I asked you several questions, but you only answered one of them, and then with an impossible value. We tried to help, but you wouldn't cooperate and do your part. If you want to continue, carefully read the questions I posed in the comment titled "Specs?", then specifically answer each ... (more) |
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A: What Sine-Wave Oscillator can be controlled with a microcontroller? pure stable sinusoidal wave This is impossible. Forget it. Go home. No matter what you do, there will always be some noise added to the sine wave. Some random noise and some harmonic distortion are inevitable. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #287678 |
How accurate does this "sine wave" need to be? THD? Max error as fraction of full scale? Some other metric? How well must amplitude be controlled, like ±3dB over the full range for example? How do you set the frequency? How accurate does the result need to be to the setpoint? There are various p... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #287646 |
Saying to "never" use the auto-router is going too far. Auto-routers can be useful tools. But, as with any tool, you have to understand what it's good at and what not, and use it accordingly. You have to know your auto-router, what all the settings do, and make sure you set them appropriately for ... (more) |
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A: Unterminated SPI bus needs expansion board to work properly At 1 MHz it's probably not transmission line effects. It's not clear from your question whether the SPI bus works on the main board with the expansion board connected, but not when it's not connected. If so, I expect you're right about the additional capacitance. An easy way to check this is to ... (more) |
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A: How to check realistic specs of small solar panel? Your proposed circuit will work, but "before the voltage drops significantly" is rather wishy-washy. I would at least use a second meter to measure the current. What you really want to know is the power, which is the voltage times the current. With two meters you can sortof eyeball it and find a... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #287535 |
This is a question and answer site, not a threaded discussion forum. If you have more information about the question, add it to the question. I have deleted your "answer" because it did not answer the question. (more) |
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A: Possible stray current corrosion in reinforced concrete First clarify where this leakage current will be flowing. You seem to think that some parts of the solar panel will generate a small current thru the rebar into the ground, but where is the closed loop? The polarity also matters. Current flowing one direction from steel to dirty water causes cor... (more) |
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A: How to calculate the voltage of a coil? calculate the voltage that will center the magnetic field of a coil This is not possible since the voltage has no effect on the position or shape of the magnetic field. The position and shape are fixed by the position and shape of the coil. But the higher the tension, the wider the magnetic fi... (more) |
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A: What is the difference between rise/fall time and Turn-On/off Delay Time? In general, the on/off delay is how long it takes from changing the input until the output starts to do something. The rise/fall time is how long it takes to do the something, once it starts doing it. Your first FET driver datasheet is a good example: The switching characteristics are idea... (more) |
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A: Is it possible to calculate the rise/fall time of an operational amplifier ? Rise and falls times are limited by the maximum slew rate the opamp can produce. This is something you look up in the datasheet. Note that the slew rate might be dependent on supply voltage and possibly other factors. Or, the datasheet might just give a single minimum large-signal slew rate for th... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #287434 |
It's OK to answer Andy here, but you also need to fix the question so that everyone else can see too. Content isn't expected to be in comments. As it is, the question is inconsistent with itself. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #287434 |
There are several problems with this question that should be addressed:
1 - Trim your image! Those big black rectangles above and below your schematic are annoying at best. If you won't bother creating an easily readable presentation, why should we bother trying to help?
2 - Link to the datas... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #287400 |
*" you wish to use ..."*. I disagree this is the "normal" case. The CRT startup code shouldn't be making such assumptions. Lots of problems happen with hidden logic tries to automatically do things for you. You should get what you explicitly ask for. If you don't ask for something you need, that... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #287400 |
Nice writeup (+1), but I can't let this go: *"some dysfunctionally written CRTs do not set-up fundamental things like watchdog and clock settings"*. There are reasons you don't want to use a watchdog timer, or need more control over the clock settings than can be explained to the CRT. Good CRT star... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #287366 |
You have been told this before. Your diagrams need to be neat and readable. Your first diagram is so out of focus that we can't even read some of the component designators. The others are so small that they are difficult to read. You could easily expand them to fill the 640 pixel width available ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #287359 |
I suppose that's OK as long as those users do the managing and regular maintenance. If you create that as a paper, I won't get in the way. (more) |
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A: A community-maintained list of abbreviations used in electrical engineering? I was the one who started that list Elsewhere. I thought the same as you, that a few common abbreviations would be good to have in a single place. However, it quickly turned into a mess. After only a few days I could see it was a mistake. People added whatever obscure abbreviations they could... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #287211 |
@LvW: Reading that over I realize I wrote that poorly. My F is the reciprocal of your F. I have updated the post to hopefully describe that better. (more) |
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That's the same thing with F flipped. You can rearrange my equation to get Gain = G / (1+ G/F). I defined F as *"the fraction of the output fed back to the negative input"*. I suspect your reference defined F as the negative feedback gain. That's the reciprocal of what I used. Substitute this al... (more) |
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A: Buck-boost converter fed from split input supply One possibility is to use a transformer. The power input can then come from across the plus and minus input power. The output can be referenced to whatever you like, which in this case would be ground. The output current would always return to ground, so not effect the current balance between the ... (more) |
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