Questions tagged [diode-clamp]
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This clamping circuit output is -ve compared to what is expected?
Clock Pulse of Vpeak =10. Providing that the first cycle is -ve why does the output in first is -20 then 0 then -20 and so on? I expected it to be 0 and 20.
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Polarity of input signal and capacitor in voltage clamper
I am stuck at understanding how voltages add up in a voltage clamper, reading through Learning About Electronics - Diode Clamper and All About Circuits - Voltage Clamper, and also YouTube a few ...
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Buck regulator maximum supply voltage VS. voltage spikes at input where we have a TVS diode
Currently I'm using a buck switching regulator AOZ1284PI of Alpha & Omega Semiconductor to generate a 5V supply from a 12V input of a lead-acid sealed battery, and I plan to use AOZ1284PI again on ...
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How is dc restorer circuit used for PWM demodulation/detection?
In the Microelectronics Circuits textbook by Sedra & Smith, it is said that:
As an application, consider a pulse signal being transmitted through a capacitively coupled or ac-coupled system. ...
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Ethernet POE voltage measurement to determine Voltage clamping between line ot Ground
I am planning on using a tvs diode to clamp power peak to protect network switch; the Port is POE. The issue is that when I measure the voltage of ethernet line to ground, I get around 0.6V. When I ...
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How to choose the correct TVS diode and how to size it?
So I was thinking about transient suppression and I found TVS diodes. I was wondering how to choose the correct TVS diode since they have 3 voltage parameters:
Vc --> clamping voltage, voltage I ...
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Designing a clipper circuit
Design a clipper circuit using 1N4148 general purpose diodes and a R = 1 kΩ to clip input signal voltages that are above 5.7 V or less than −0.7 V. Below is my schematic in which Vo<=Vdo + 5V and ...
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resistor placement for zener diode for over voltage protection
i have searched in over voltage protection (like mosfet ) , i wanted to use zener diode parallel so it wont dissipate power unless in over voltage protection , but its power is low so i read that i ...
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RC differentiator negative voltage clamp for comparator protection
I am building an RC circuit with the capacitor on high side and resistor at ground, connected to a voltage comparator.
simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab
I saw this ...
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Voltage clamping for nixie tube driver
I want to design a nixie clock based on a high voltage shift register: the HV5530. I don't what to multiplex the tubes to avoid loss in brightness. My idea is to leave the anodes powered all the time ...
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Clamp a D/A to prevent output below 0V
I am using a USB D/A converter to drive a high-voltage op-amp with a signal between 0 and 3V at 10 kHz. The D/A I am using is capable of outputting between -10 and +10 and unfortunately seems to ...
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GPIO over voltage input protection
I want to design a circuit that can protect GPIO of the microcontroller from high voltages.the GPIO connects externally to mechanical switch.
So my approach was to use zener diode to clamp the high ...
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Analog input over-voltage protection using Schottky and Zener Diodes. Can it work?
I'm developing an analog input module based on TI's ADS8668 and want to protect the input channels from over-voltage. According to the datasheet, each analog input channel withstands voltages from -...
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ESD Diode - clamping voltage
I'm trying to replace an existing ESD diode(PESD1CAN) in my application CAN circuitry due to some reasons, I've found an alternative ESD diode(RSB27C2), but compared to the diode that I already have ...
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How do I size a zener diode for use as a freewheel diode for a ZVS induction heater?
My electronics experience is "hobbyist" and I'm in some new territory with this question, so forgive me if this question turns out to have an easy answer or prove to be dumb.
I have a basic ZVS ...
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Over voltage protection for a buck controller 24V in. 4-5V out
Please see Image below, if the output votlage here is 4-5V with current out 3A-15A(depending on LOAD).
Could I stick a Zener diode to clamp any over voltages to protect the load from over voltages?
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Over-voltage protection system for a 7 - 20 A Load with 4 - 5.5 V output from PSU
The power supply used on the product, is a DC-DC buck controller 24 V in (3 - 5.5 V out).
I need some suggestions to help protect a load (LED Display) which draws roughly 5 - 15 A the power supply on ...
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Question about diode clamper
I have 2 problems with diode clampers that I don't understand
First, in this circuit for example:
In the positive half cycle, the voltage across the diode is the diode drop of 0.7 V
Then the ...
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How does diode clamp protection work?
I am not able to understand how diode clamp protection works.
Considering the diode clamp protection as shown in Figure 1: When the input voltage (Vin) becomes more than power supply voltage (Vss = ...
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Clamping negative voltage on comparator input (LM393)
I need to compare a AC voltage against a reference voltage. I'm only interested in the positive part of the cycle so I need to clamp the negative part of the cycle to protect the comparator input. I ...
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During DC restoration of a video signal how is the first sync pulse detected?
DC restoration of an AC coupled video signal can be performed by clamping to
some reference voltage, during the horizontal sync periods of the video. This
all seems fine in a running system, when the ...
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If you were to add “DC offset” with a clamp, can you easily remove it afterwards?
I don't have a circuit right now, but let's say you wanted to add DC offset to a signal (ex. to prepare a signal for an Op amp stage) but then afterwards center that signal on 0v.
Is this possible ...
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Use of DC source in Zener clamping circuit
A question in my engineering degree asked me to design a clamp circuit that gives a 10V 50Hz AC signal a +5V DC bias. I designed the following circuit as my answer:
I assumed 0.6V forward drop for ...
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12V 12A resettable crowbar circuit
The idea is to protect the input stage of a control card from improper power supply connection. The power supply is a standard desktop AC-DC power adapter (Meanwell GST160A12) with inbuilt shortcut, ...
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Diode clamp circuit question
I understand the use of diodes as switches or "clamp circuits", however I needed a little clarification in this diagram, taken from the site https://www3.nd.edu/~lemmon/courses/ee224/web-manual/web-...
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OpAmp clamping circuit not working for a Pulse voltage reference in PSpice
So, we had an analog electronics lab exam today where we had to generate a waveform:
I wrote the PSpice code, using a clamper circuit (in hindsight a summer was the best option, but whatever). The ...
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Learning the Art of Electronics - diode clamp
Working through Learning the Art of Electronics, Hayes T, I'm stuck trying to build the diode clamp in Figure 3L.7 on page 137, as below:
The text says to, "Drive it with a sinewave from your
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12 V input on 3.3 V GPIO, TVS pulled down or Schottky pull up?
I am building my own PLC that has to accept permanent inputs of up to 30 V DC into a STM32F with 3.3 V inputs.
The switched input will have to work with 8-30 V, but 90% of the time the ...
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Principle of diode in DRL AND gate
The explanation (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diode_logic) states that
R is connected to +12 volts to provide the forward bias current for the diodes and current for output drive. If all ...
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Conceptual confusion about voltage multiplier circuits
I can do circuit analysis of the half-wave series multiplier (also called Villard or Greinacher cascade or Cockcroft-Walton multiplier) and see that it works, but I have several conceptual confusions ...
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Clamper for easy DC-restore in video-composite
I'm unsure how to properly design a simple clamper in a video circuit like this:
The capacitor should be there to avoid any DC offset flowing into the X1 primary loop. I don't know if I can treat the ...
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What is the difference between clamping a input signal at X volts and clamping a input signal by X volts
I know that the total swing of the signal remains the same.I don't know how the circuit will be designed when it's asked to clamp the signal at X volts.
Will the lower peak be at X volts? Or the ...
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Clamping diode between supply and output of an opamp
I am trying to create a test board for Apex MP38. I am following their own evaluation kit design and noticed there are 2 clamping diodes between the OpAmp's output and the positive and negative rails:
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Internal clamping circuit at the input pins of an MCU
I understand that the internally two diodes exist at the input of a microcontroller and one end of it is connected to Vdd and the other end of the second diode is connected to ground and when the ...
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Connecting DIODE in relay circuit
Am a very beginner with electronic circuits and its components.. Im trying to turn on my water pump using Arudino nano. Ive got 25A solid state relay for that purpose. So according to little info I ...
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Voltage Multiplier Circuit Problem
I have gone through Volatge multiplier circuits like, doubler ,tripler, quadrupler. And seem to understrand circuits like them shown in the figure.
With these in mind, I find it very difficult to ...
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What's the difference between Clamper and Rectifier
I have a doubt that instead of rectifier we can use positive clamper to get the DC voltage at output, because the clamper adds the DC voltage to the AC signal, but even the same thing is done by the ...
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Short circuit protection for digital input
In my question here: Review of my first ever PCB design for a watering control robot. it was pointed out that I should probably protect the LEVEL_ALERT line.
So ...
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Is clamping a valid termination strategy?
This application note seems to suggest that for high-speed signals clamping diodes can be used to deal with overshoots instead of termination:
To manage signal integrity issues and protect the ...
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Is the circuit a voltage doubler or not?
I'm not able to actually understand how the circuit behaves as a voltage doubler.From my understanding the circuit would behave as a voltage doubler if during the positive half cycle only D1 would ...
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Determining Dynamic Resistance of TVS Diode from Datasheet
I'm trying to determine the dynamic resistance of TVS diodes so I can calculate clamping voltage and peak current for a given input pulse (automotive load dump).
This app note(1) from ST provides a ...
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Dealing with voltage spikes in BLDC motor drive
I drive a BLDC motor with an ESC. When using power from a LiPo battery everything works as expected. When I use a power supply, on rapid stops or slowdowns motor generates voltage spikes, which send ...
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How to remove the negative component of a sine wave?
The following is the schematics of a simple circuit I'm working on, It filters and amplifies an electret condenser microphone's signal to get an output ranging from 0 to 9V (to drive an equalizer like ...
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My IC keeps blowing up - PAC1720 current sense IC
I am using a PAC1720 current measuring IC to measure the current/voltage/power being delivered to a lead acid motorcycle battery that is being charged.
Here is a newer datasheet and an older ...
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Circuit for connecting externally power instrument to MCU
I have externally powered instruments that I need connected to the ADC inputs of an MCU. They output 0-5V analog, and the MCU accepts 0-3.33V. There is no guarantee of the voltage difference in ...
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Signal buffer with op-amp clamping and voltage bias
I'm new to EE and have a question about signal buffering. I'd like to use two brief paragraphs to give some background and context.
I live in the SE Asian country-side. Mains supply (230VAC 50Hz) is ...
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Art Of Electronics - Bypass capacitor across D1 in Figure 1.82
In the below picture, I am struggling with the text, in parenthesis, that says "You could similarly add a bypass capacitor across d1 in figure 1.82"
Can someone explain this to me? What is the ...
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Identifying a input protection diode from a power supply by a photo
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It seems to be TVS (Transient Voltage Suppressors) diode. Maybe, %20 unidirectional. Because, there is a mini hole in ...
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Working principle of clamped circuit with finite load resistance?
Please help me understand the output waveform for the clamper circuit to the following input. i do understand without load resistance, but with load resistance i cant seem to work it out
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Simple overvoltage protection
I'm looking at a very simple method for overvoltage protection of a load connected to a standard external switching power supply.
The load is powered by a 12V power supply, but this could be mistaken ...
