Posts by Olin Lathrop
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 keepi...
The voltages from the raw microphone are quite small and fairly high impedance. That's why an amplifier at the mic is needed in the first place. The signal on the wire would be way too small comp...
Some optos are really slow. What off time is yours specified for? Your circuit could be better. The transistor is turned on thru 1 kΩ, but off thru 11 kΩ. You are also giving it way more base c...
They don't outright tell you the maximum operating voltage, probably because that would imply a power level beyond what they think anyone would use this connector with. Note that it is intended fo...
I've never been involved with the design of an ESD table, so I can only imagine some reasons to put grounding connections at the front: For convenience. If you've got a table specifically for ESD...
First, common mode is something that only applies to a differential signal. When a signal is encoded in the difference between two voltages, the common mode voltage is the average of the two. The...
CAN lines in the most common implementation have 60 Ω impedance between them. Anything that is substantially larger than that won't effect the lines much. I'd use 1 kΩ at least, preferably more. ...
Adding to what Lundin said (+1): s is seconds, S is siemens (1/Ω). What we write here is inherently HTML. Greek characters like µ and Ω are defined as HTML entities, and can always be writte...
Your basic problem is that the motor needs some applied power to generate any EMF, but if you apply that power then its not an open circuit test. For a true induction motor you're probably stuck. ...
In protocol I2S we have 4 signal: 1.data 2.lrck/fck (frame synchronizer) 3.bck (bit clock) 4.mck/sck (master clock) Not really. IIS really only has 3 signals: bit data, bit clock, and left/right ...
If there isn't a VA rating on the label or published in a reliable source, then you have to guess. There are several clues that can be used: Look at the size of the primary wires. That gives you...
Talk to your board house. 4 mil slop for the soldermask around pads is excessive. Leaving 4 mils is fine for larger parts, but as you say, it doesn't work for fine pitch. The main reason for mak...
I'm thinking out loud here and haven't solved this yet. This answer is logging my process as I try to solve the problem. It may very well result in the same long-winded process you went thru. No...
You are asking about feedback in this circuit, and how R3 fits into that: First, note that the circuit is an emitter follower, and has a voltage gain less than 1. Second, R3 bypasses the transi...
A diode mixer exploits the fact that the voltage across a diode is the log of the current thru it, to a good enough approximation for many uses. Now note that multiplication can be performed by ta...
in my schematic we must add R1 correct? No. Ultimately you are adjusting the varactor with a DC voltage that has a certain impedance. You can think of it as a Thevenin source. In your case, the...
I am not familiar with that chip, and only took a very quick look at the datasheet. Here is the block diagram of the part from the top of the first page: A few things pop out from this: This c...
The charger is supposed to output 20V-24V when the roomba is plugged in. However it's only showing 1.6V. If this is really true, then there is no point going further. The charger isn't working, t...
Your question really comes down to how a delta-sigma A/D works. The A/D internally models the input voltage with a stream of bits. Each bit can only indicate the minimum or maximum voltage. The ...
Baud rate is about the speed of bit slots in the channel or symbols. Bit rate is the rate at which actual data is transmitted. Put another way, baud rate is what you see when you look at a scope ...
First, that's an archaic chip that requires a lot of circuitry around it to do anything useful. Why use this particular chip? Second, the datasheet gives you an example of how to use this part as ...
Back and forth discussion is not suited to the Q&A format that this web site is set up for. As far as I know, the Codidact software is not capable of a category that supports threaded discussi...
Microwave ovens work on the frequency they do because that's one of the main resonant frequencies of water molecules. The radiation excites water molecules, which then transfer some of their extra...
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 distortio...
