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Posts by TonyStewart‭

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Q&A Ceramic filter vs ceramic resonator

A resonator cannot replace a filter because the filter has multiple resonances to extend the bandwidth. For AM carrier modulation using a narrow band resonator with 0.5% tolerance of 6MHz or +/-30...

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Q&A Low-pass filter after the output DAC in CD players

The oversampling is said to simplify the LPF yet the better reason is that it improves the SNR. Lower noise comes from better image rejection, lower filter ringing, and significantly lower group d...

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Q&A pH Electrode Buffer - Offset when solution grounded

DC offsets in hundreds of mV from different grounds may be coming from either the floating ground or the PE earth. The latter may be from rectified AC line filter noise shunted to PE. The former m...

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Q&A Can confusing the plugs for earphones and microphones do any damage?

If you mean electret microphone, no damage to JFET buffer. Microphone input won't damage a headset with it's current limited pullup resistor for electret Mics.

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Q&A Design high -pass filter with 2 points of the bode plot

Filter design 101 given hypothetical high-pass (HPF) filter -3dB gain HPF at fc attenuation of -8dB at fc/2 Assumptions gain = 0 dB at f>> fc Ripple between -3dB and 0 dB...

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Q&A Circuit which create ac sine wave from dc pulsed signal

This is about as simple an analog inverter that I can simulate, but warning, not for the beginner with resonance issues. The bridge diodes are 2f multipliers reduced to logic level with divide by ...

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Q&A Results of analysis of Hartley oscillator dont make sense

This LC circuit depends on several criteria for stable linear oscillation; 180 deg phase shift ( with 3rd order LC network) plus 180 degree inversion to achieve the oscillation criteria of 0 or ...

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Q&A What reactance actually is?

Reactance is the lossless part of impedance that stores and releases energy E=1/2 LI^2 or 1/2CV^2 . Much like a spring stores energy when compressed or expanded. L is a conductor that stores curr...

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

Anti-Aliasing filter depends on the following parameters; Signal BW Sampling Rate Sampling duration and thus BW of sample LPF attenuation of alias spectrum above 1. From your SNR spec or dy...

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Q&A Capacitor ESR vs. Impedance

Capacitors are lossless with 0 ESR and rise in temperature and become less reliable by 50% for every 10’C rise due to I^2ESR=Pd losses. However the current spectrum must be known with the ESR frequ...

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Q&A Is there a way to reliably measure antenna return loss outside a lab?

The RSSI detector in the receiver is the best field tool. In Windows I had a tool (Wifi Radar?) that read the Broadcom IC RSSI and displayed a time plot of the results as I changed laptop orientati...

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Q&A Why are antenna PCB traces square instead of rounded?

Corners and chambers that are a small fraction of a wavelength are not significant in the <4Ghz band. More significant is the tolerance and loss tangent on the substrate. They would hardly be m...

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

To answer some of your questions: Cable inductance: approx 1uH/m +/-50% depends slightly on l/d ratio , while cable impedance from sqrt(L/C) depends on twists/ft 50pF/m while coax is ~100pF/m ...

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Q&A How to estimate time of completion while developing an electronic product?

In my 15 yrs of intense deadline R&D for new state-of-the-art design in my 45yrs experience, estimation of time is inversely proportional to the number of mini failures from bad assumptions fro...

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Q&A How to plot the I-V curve of a tunnel diode?

How to test a Tunnel diode in 25 words or less. With DC bias = ~490mV with fine tuning and a small signal swing of 60mV you can generate a IV negative slope of -16 Ohms.

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Q&A Using FET based followers and design rules

Allow me to address the MOSFET only as a source follower. this has very unpredictable linear use without voltage = current feedback as the RdsOn at threshold has a wide tolerance.(>20%) (Many...

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Q&A Microwave oven interfering with WiFi on the 2.4GHz band

Microwave Materials, Spectrum then EMI effects on SNR of WiFi, BT. There are a lot of measurable parameters in microwave dielectrics which affect; Dielectric Constant , Dk between conductors an...

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