Questions tagged [emi-filtering]
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What's the LC filter arrangement on dual output DC/DC converters?
It's pretty hard to find a filter arrangement for a dual output converter, but I came across the following:-
Taken from here.
So for the bottom example, is the LC arrangement correct? I always ...
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EMI Filter - DC DC Converter No Differential Mode Filter Outlined
I am currently looking at installing a DC-DC Converter. https://www.xppower.com/Portals/0/pdfs/SF_QSB300.pdf
The datasheet outlines a recommended EMI filter as so:
My question is as the datasheet ...
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Impacts of low-pass filter on micro-controller board
I have a micro-controller board, driving small DC servo motors and I control the angle via a PWM signal (50 Hz) and everything is alright.
However, there is an oil gas motor, running next to the ...
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Questions regarding DC-DC converters powering transducers
Several of these transducers requires isolation as recommended here in their manual:
The transducer models are uni-polar 0-10V output which require 24VDC power supplies. So at the moment there is a ...
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Is shielding the entire circuit with a faraday cage a good idea?
Let's suppose I have a circuit which contains a 3.3V MCU and a buck converter (let's think that its frequency is higher than 400 kHz). I'm wondering if shielding the entire circuit would not a good ...
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How can I generate a noisy environment to test my PCB?
I am developing a PCB project but i want to use the PCB in noisy environments (which usually contains 7.5-45 kW multiple motors with frequency inverters and also ignition transformers). I made some ...
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EMI Filter design capacitors problem
I'm trying to design an EMI filter for a 3-phase induction motor driver. I've looked at some example filter designs but in one of them I couldn't understand the capacitors and resistors what they are ...
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Shielding and Ground Loops - RF panel jacks for GPS
I've been working on a design that requires me to pass an RF signal through a conductive panel. I'm using SMA jacks for that purpose as they're readily available and also available in an isolated ...
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Calculating Capacitance / Rolloff Frequency for Across the Line RFI Supression
I’m in the process of restoring my first All American Five (AA5) tube radio – in this case, a GE Model 115 from the late 1940s. As I’m getting ready to order replacement capacitors for it, one of ...
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Will a 2.4GHz WiFI/Bluetooth antenna create noise in my sensitive EEG measurement circuit?
I'm designing a circuit for doing EEG measurements and I want it to be very compact. As a result, the WiFI+Bluetooth antenna (2.4GHz) will be sitting half an inch above the electrode inputs. Will this ...
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Can an isoSPI interface work without isolation?
Ive got a LTC6820 that I will be communicating with a LTC6811 and they both use isoSPI but all the example diagrams show the connections going through a transformers and twisted wire like this:
But ...
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Connect MIDI input shield connection to ground with capacitor. What voltage / kind?
The midi specification mentions optional capacitors between connector shield and ground for a midi input:
Neither the type of capacitor nor the voltage rating is specified.
I would think that the ...
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How to connect an AC line filter
I am trying to connect an AC line filter (rated for 115/250VAC) on the load side of a 24VAC transformer (part# BPD2G, datasheet here).
The first filter model I used is Delta's 03DBAW5.
From the ...
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AC EMI filter specification
I am looking at the specifications of an EMI filter for single a phase ac application, and I noted that the datasheet specifies an operating frequency from DC-400Hz? Do you have any idea of what this ...
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Filtering out OLED electrical noise
I have an OLED display and a high gain op-amp on the same circuit. When OLED is powered on and displaying something, it creates a electrical noise on the output of the opamp. Here is what I tried:
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Why does PWM create lots of EMI and signal ground noise?
TI had a note to create DAC signals using PWM.
http://www.ti.com/lit/ug/tidu027/tidu027.pdf
Whereas I also found an article that says
http://www.mosaic-industries.com/embedded-systems/...
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Dual Rail Switch Mode Power Supply Filtering
I'm looking at the datasheet for a dual rail SMPS I plan on using for analog circuits, and I'm wondering about how to interpret some recommended filtering circuits. I understand a simple filtering ...
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Grounding balanced secondary isolation transformer for EMI suppression
simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab
Which is the best secondary connection to clean the main line power from EMI, line noise and HF harmonics by using an isolation 1:1 ...
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How do I correctly protect my MCU from resetting during a current surge on RF transmission?
I designed a PCB with a SIM868 module for data transmission. On the PCB, the MCU resets randomly on transmission start of the SIM module. On a breadboard setup, it worked just fine, even without caps. ...
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Inductance value of PI-filter connectors?
I find myself in the situation of being forced to use filter connectors to solve an EMC issue very late in the project. Normally, this should of course be solved in circuit design, but as projects and ...
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Spark plug cable firing interrupts
I am building an electronic tachometer for an old motorbike (a moped).
For RPM monitoring I have come up with a solution of painting part of magnet black and using a TCRT5000 reflective sensor which ...
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Some more problem caused by EMI
Before, I asked some ways to solve the EMI problem and I got some useful answer from here:
Really occasional malfunction of the Schmitt-trigger input - Really occasional malfunction of the Schmitt-...
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How much power can electrical noise (EMI) produce?
I have a 5-meter-long wire connected to an ESP8266 input. The wire is connected to a regular wall-mounted switch and goes through my room's wall and is adjacent to mains power lines.
As you would ...
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Reduce EMI generated by old AC motor from an electric knife
I have an old electric knife (220V 50Hz) which seems to produce a lot of EMI.
Some clues on that were a "bzzzz" noise from PC speaker I noticed sometimes when someone use it.
Recently I bought a ...
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Coupled DC/DC-modules - correct input filtering
According to the support from TracoPower I use two THN-30WI modules (±15V) in conjunction as shown below (without each C1 and C2) to produce ±30V.
This works but I get a lot of noise.
The ...
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LC filter applicability for power to output cables
I am designing a circuit that has a 240MHz MCU and some cables going to sensors so I am wanting to reduce the clock noise getting onto the supply line and going out the cables by using an LC filter. ...
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Distance required between two wires to avoid EMI
I am running 3 cables cables from a solar heater down to my apartment (around 12 meters), one to power an electric heater and water pump (around 2000 watts in total), one to control a 12V solenoid and ...
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Issues with designing ground plane for switching relays in high noise environment
I am designing a PC Controlled 8 channel Relay using AVR microcontroller.
Here, the relays are on the right side of the board and are controlled by the AVR micro on the left side.
The eight TTL ...
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Problem while simulating EMI Filter for power lines
I was designing an EMI Filter for the CE102 standard.
I was a bit confused on how to provide noise source to the circuit, since (as of my knowledge) EMI noise enters our system by parasitic ...
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How to deal with an inconsistent / noisy power signal?
I'm using a 12v power supply to operate a system of sensors that is very sensitive to fluctuations in the voltage input. Unfortunately, I can't control what goes on upstream of my components and this ...
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Linear power supply and mains filtering and protection
I'm designing my first linear power supply for my project which needs dual rail 12V (the regulation from 15V to 12V is on another board, 7812 and 7912).
The +12V (+15V) rail will draw about 250mA, the ...
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Using a line filter transformer for audio? [closed]
I've read that line filter transformers (like the one on the image) attenuate EMI between AC mains and an electronic circuit. Will the RF attenuation also work if I used one of these on audio input ...
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Need help to newbie to understand MIL-STD-461 [closed]
why only 10khz-10Mhz is used for CE102 test ?
why not other frequency range is used for CE102 test ?
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Automotive battery input EMI filtering
I'm reviewing the schematics for an evaluation board, which uses an LC filter on the DC input as shown here:
PWR_IN is defined for the evaluation board as being 7-27V. The issue I'm facing, is where ...
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Airport radar is interfering with my circuitry
I am using an arduino, but this is not an arduino question. And unfortunately, I cannot share my schematic. I can tell you though that I have a stack of three arduino-sized boards which create two ...
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PC monitor flickers/resets when washer motor switches on or off [closed]
My room is next to our laundry and I've recently got a new PC monitor. I've noticed each time the motor in the washing machine is switched on or off, my monitor flickers/resets. The monitor is 32" but ...
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Impedance mismatch in LISN for EMI/EMC test
I am currently designing LISN for CE-102 test.The schematic of the circuit is provided below.
When I connect the circuit to the network analyzer the impedance is coming as shown below
expected graph ...
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Suppressing “travelling” EMI spikes
I am working on a circuit with a AC to DC power supply module and wireless MCU module. The MCU operates at 240MHz and on the power input to the module there are 2 x 0.1uF capacitors and a 22uF ...
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PCB design - signal loops
I've read about loops that a PCB designer should avoid them "mostly about ground loops" but i think I've read also about power.
so in this case, is this wrong: ???
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what happen if I use EMI filter at more then specified current
I want to use Gaia EMI filter. my load requirement is 1.7 A continuous and 3.5A Max. Voltage is 28 V. Because of the max current I have to use FGDS-10A-50V(load current can go up to 10A) but this size ...
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How to prevent EMI from affecting transistor
I am working on a simple APRS tracker.
The schematic is here:
It's not on a PCB, but just on a protoboard:
The problem:
Q1 transistor activates the push-to-talk on a handheld VHF transceiver, "...
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Why does an SMPS use LCR on INPUT?
I have this 5 V output SMPS I bought a while ago. I was wondering why there are LCRs connected to the input of my SMPS. I don't understand why it's there.
BTW, I'm an electrical engineering student, ...
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5.5 kHz noise on SMPS output
I am designing a low noise SMPS like this
http://www.ti.com/lit/df/tidrgc2/tidrgc2.pdf switching from 40-90 kHz.
I have a weird problem, on the output we are seeing a spike of noise at 5.5 kHz and ...
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Troubleshooting noise pickup near AC motors
I have a 2-layer PCB with ADC communicating using SPI. This board is to be used with a National Instruments (NI, LabVIEW) FPGA, with a clock rate up to approximately 600kHz (higher would be nice, but ...
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ACM2012-900-2P filter can be used on USB 3.0 lines of a Type-C connector?
I have doubts that this CMF is recommended for USB3.0 due to his bandwidth. I am afraid it will filter the USB signal. Can someone explain better the SCCC21 and SDS21 characteristics from here? https:/...
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Protection against EMI for an RFID reader
I've designed a base board for a Velleman VMA405 (13.56 MHz) RFID reader based on MFRC522 IC. But, due to interference from the base board (I'm assuming the oscillator), the reading range is limited ...
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Does a 3-winding common mode choke work on PE wire
Update
It was pointed out the PE wire has to carry large current in fault condition so using a 3-phase CMC is problematic. In IEC62368-1 (2nd edition) chapters 5.6.3 and 5.6.4 it is implied that the ...
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Protection against EMI
I have a complex EMI problem.
There is a RPi Compute Module along with a LAN9512 and GSM modem (M66).
Layout guidelines are strictly following the datasheets' recommendations, I don't think there is ...
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does the orientation of a choke in an LVDS application matter?
I found the diagram below online while looking for information on the orientation of a choke I intend to use in an LVDS application. Does the orientation of the choke matter? The part I intend to use ...
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RC snubber on Mosfet (smps) max C
I am designing a SMPS from TI http://www.ti.com/lit/df/tidrgc2/tidrgc2.pdf
We replaced the Mosfet fro schematic with STL11N65M5 that has a Coss of 18pf
So I am designing a RC snubber across it and I ...
