Amplification of sinusoidal signal from filter circuit

Question

Intention of the project is to obtain sinusoidal signal generator of frequency range 10Hz to 100Hz and 5v signal from microcontroller i.e arduino uno,

using pwm from arduino uno I got the square waves of 4.3v - 5v, the signal was fed into the RC low pass filter of four stages and cut-off frequency of 50Hz, the output after simulation was found to be a sinusoidal signal of 50Hz but with low volts of about 400mv, I tried to amplify the signal using OPamp amplifier with LM324 IC but the output was found to decrease to almost zero volts, But after swapping between filter and amplifier, now the I'm amplifying the square wave before filtering the signal voltage raised to almost 900mv. Intention is obtain sinusoidal signal with 5v and frequency between 10Hz and 100Hz. Please any best way to accomplish this.

Answer 1

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When using a very high Q, Wein bridge or Barkhausen unity gain positive feedback oscillator, the time to grow oscillations depends on the excess gain and the initial condition. I supposed Proteus may not have the necessary initial condition to "kickstart" oscillation.

This is normally done by natural noise or DC offset. But here is a trick that can guarantee instant oscillation with the initial condition of a DC step voltage to start oscillation. Assuming the initial condition of 0 voltage across each capacitor, arrange to ensure the desired startup output voltage. This is similar to a logic power-on reset cap. ( see the simulation link in my last comment, as shown below.)

Power on kick-start to Osc. depends on the placement of Cap to Vin+ guaranteed by design. otherwise, noise or offset voltage has to grow slowly from excess over-unity gain with "Barkhausen criteria".

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• never cascade RC filters of the same value. Why? the impedance of each stage loads the previous stage and results in a weaker knee at the breakpoint when you want a sharper higher order filter.
• capacitors can become inductors in active filters by impedance inversion from negative feedback, to make better active high order filters
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Is this a suitable sine wave osc? how would I control the frequency?

What's the easiest/cheapest variable-frequency sine wave oscillator?

• you don't need an Arduino to make a good low freq. sine generator

1Hz Sine wave oscillator - Multisim

Here's my simple 50Hz sine (split supply)

[ or +5V only but Rail to Rail output type] using LED's to soft limit the gain to x1

Answer 2

Intention of the project is to obtain sinusoidal signal generator of frequency range 10Hz to 100Hz and 5v signal from microcontroller i.e arduino uno.

In that case, instead of starting with a square wave I would start with a sine wave. Add a DAC, driven by SPI or I2C. 10Hz to 100Hz is something which even the Arduino can do. You will get a much, much higher quality and need less components. The down side is that you need to write a bit more software.

You can still add an RC filter but that can a be single stage for e.g. 10KHz. to remove some rough edges.