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Posts by 2kind‭

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Q&A Why 3.3V instead of 3V?

Usual values used in doing electronics/power supplies are almost always round numbers: 5V 12V 28V 48V 60V I understand that in some cases ICs are built to accept the voltage directly comi...

4 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by 2kind‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by TonyStewart‭

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Q&A When do I need to put anti-aliasing filter in front of SAR ADC?

Signal characteristics are: 0 to 3.3V span 0 to 100Hz range( there will be noise superposed on top with unknown characteristics) Output resistance Rout=4700 ohm I want to sample that with a...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by 2kind‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭

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Q&A High Speed Design - Which grounding strategy to choose?

Although I have done multiple PCB designs which passed FCC and CE equivalents using the MCU's/Multiple MCU's, I have a doubt about how to approach the high speed design using FPGA SoC - main thing ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by 2kind‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Why are some PCB design software programs considered to be 'hobbyist' programs?

I will try to cover additional aspects. Not eager on making changes - Big organizations are usually non very prone on changing their horse for the battle - sticking to their EDA choice from 20+ ye...

posted 2y ago by 2kind‭

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Q&A Capacitor ESR vs. Impedance

One of the ceramic capacitors that I've found(link to the capacitor) specifies the following characteristics at 10 kHz: The difference in value is quite significant, almost 100 fold. Which grap...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by 2kind‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by TonyStewart‭

Question capacitor ESR ESL
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Q&A Power Line Filter. Location of Cy and common mode choke.

A circuit under question: Why are CY capacitors on the source side, and not on the load side? Henry Ott describes this with: Because filter attenuation is a function of impedance mismatch, t...

3 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by 2kind‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by Nick Alexeev‭

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Q&A Standardized way of measuring AC line frequency

In a general sinewave as below, is there a "right" way/"standardized" way to measure line frequency - and how do energy meters calculate that? measuring pulse width of half-period, ie. time elap...

3 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by 2kind‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by Pete W‭

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Q&A PCB ground planes with isolated voltage

You have a 6 layer design for controlling 24V brushed DC motor, galvanically isolated voltage rails(24V and the rest) and your question is how to separate them properly. There is no further reason...

posted 2y ago by 2kind‭

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Q&A Circuit for earth conductor presence detection

Reading a Tesla Wall Adapter installation manual , their brand of an AC EV charger, chapter about “Ground Assurance” and here is the quote from there: Although the equipment can work with L1 and...

2 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by 2kind‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by TonyStewart‭

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Q&A Isolated Digital Input - Overvoltage protection

I am trying to build an active-low digital isolated switch capable of withstanding 32VDC voltage without creating any damage to the system. This is the snapshot of the circuit not fulfilling the r...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by 2kind‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Flyback transformer for Vout > Vin

This question is asked in an addition to https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/276436 Here is a Flyback converter mentioned there: Design parameters are: Input voltage 125 volts Output volt...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by 2kind‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭

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Q&A Minimizing Common Mode Radiation - Separating Grounds

There are various different methods to keep common mode currents off the cables, one of them being discussed on the site here and with Olin's decoupling caps post on StackExchange. Slight digressio...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by 2kind‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by TonyStewart‭

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Q&A Contactor control - Higher voltage PWM

I have a battery pack that consists of 18650 battery cells(14 cells in series max.). Hence, the voltage of the battery pack will be between 35V and 60V(to be on the safe side) I am designing a BMS...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by 2kind‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭

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Q&A How to choose the right value for input voltage ripple of an SMPS?

Which important system design parameters need to be locked in order to estimate the maximum allowable level of the input voltage ripple of an SMPS? I have encountered ballpark figures of <1%, &...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by 2kind‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

Question SMPS ripple
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Q&A Motor Controller - What might be the purpose of these resistors?

I was looking at the video of the Tesla Model 3 motor controller(400VDC, 500A) disassembly and noticed a resistor network as in the picture below. They are 2k resistors(SMD code 202). See the pic...

4 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by 2kind‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by DSI‭

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Q&A BLDC motor - initial rotor position

Sensorless BLDC motor controller are becoming more and more popular, especially with rising of the drone industry. Being able to detect where the rotor is at 0rpm or no load seems intuitive if we ...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by 2kind‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by KalleMP‭

Question motor control PMSM
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Q&A CAN Bus - Internal Oscillator

Every time I needed CAN, I had just put external crystal and didn't think about it after that. It worked fine. I am wondering however whether the precisions of MCU internal oscillator is sufficien...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by 2kind‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A Transformer - Vsec or Current rating parameter

I am looking at the datasheet of the 7508170315(link) transformer and something seems strange to me. If I connect this to a 12V supply and expose it to 10us pulse: 12V*10us/475uH = 252mA which ...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by 2kind‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Using FET based followers and design rules

In addition to Olin's answer: and I'm particularly interested in jfets and mosfets. If you decide to go down the FET route the dilemma between J and MOS gets down to home much you are willi...

posted 4y ago by 2kind‭

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Q&A Estimating the input capacitance of an BLDC motor controller

Problem Description I am trying to design a BLDC inverter and I am in doubt of what would be the right approach for estimating the input capacitor size/type. Doing it empirically or throwing every...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by 2kind‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭

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Q&A Max V/Hz value for motor

I want to run a specific motor in the open loop. How to calculate the maximum ratio of V/f to run it? Am I looking at Ld or Lq value for this? Let's say these are the characteristics - haven't ch...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by 2kind‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭

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Q&A Flyback Converter - Output Ripple

I am eager to create a flyback converter for driving the high side MOSFET. Here is a snapshot of my work so far: 555 timer starts with generating ~100kHz 12V signal on Q1. Q2 is monitoring the v...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by 2kind‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A ESD Protection - Differential Amplifier

More about the circuit The circuit is sensing (low side sensing for many reasons) current used to power up the lights with 28V(part of the schematics not shown here -> relay with LC filter ...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by 2kind‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭

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Q&A Driving PMSM machine as an AC induction machine

Is it possible to drive a PMSM motor - here I am referring to an AC motor with permanent magnets(stator wounded, rotor with PM) - in a way that there is no externally mounted rotor position sensor(...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by 2kind‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

Question motor PMSM VFD
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Q&A Converting 5V to ±12V

I would like to convert 5V rail I have on PCB to ±12V. Existing solution is using boost converter 5V to 12V, and a buck for 5V to -12V. This feels bulky for what it's needed - here are the requirem...

2 answers  ·  posted 12mo ago by 2kind‭  ·  last activity 12mo ago by H_H‭

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