Posts by TonyStewart
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...
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...
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 ...
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.
I have never seen this slow drift in ceramic caps, yet I have seen fast memory effect drift in S&H designs using high Dk ceramic capacitors in the 70's. So I have learnt that all ceramic caps h...
It is important to realize that an ECG signal is high impedance and this easily picks up line voltage E-fields. Using a 50 Ohm sig.gen. is a poor simulation of the use of this circuit and also neg...
To understand the timing, you must understand the cause. Delay is the time from input to output It is measured from +10% of input to 90% of output ( or a 10% change in output), unlike logic chips ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
$$Z = R + jX $$R is a real resistance that stores energy as heat and temperature rise which depends on the thermodynamic property of thermal resistance which is impacted by an enclosure to get hott...
gas tubes, SCRs, and welder arcs all have negative incremental resistance. This means when conduction begins, the resistance drops like a crowbar and is sustained until the current drops belo...
Possibly it is damaged. Be ESD aware and do not power up with any voltage on any pins > 0.5V (Latchup failure) If raising p9 (reset) does not lower Q to logic "0"=<20% Vdd) replace the ...
~ In an open circuit test, also known as a no-load test, an induction motor is operated without any mechanical load connected to its shaft. The purpose of this test is to determine the no-load loss...
Any time you have a dielectric interface ( ___ pF ) source resistance will always have an error in signal response until the electrode impedance is eqal or less than the sub-cutaneous impedance. T...
Current limiting input differential Rs of 1M into a 10M INA with clamp diodes make this a simple task.
CMRR design is key to rejecting grid e-fields that impose noise onto EMG, EKG,EEG amplifiers. This includes all series Zs of cable balance and Amp CMRR. For this reason >100 dB CMRR are requ...
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 ...
You'll need a differential comparator, something like what was suggested in here. But I'd look for a proper Canbus Rx and extract that to convert to single ended one shot to pulse for activity.
It is interesting to see how they deposited these carbon electrodes over solder mask and copper traces both under the button foil switches and membrane switches alike which offer more tactile feel....
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...
