Questions tagged [filtering]
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Reduction of Butterworth low pass filter to ideal low pass filter and gaussian lowpass filter
While studying frequency domain filtering in computer vision, i came across this topic where the Butterworth low pass filter reduces to ideal low pass filer for large value of n and also reduces to ...
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Band pass filter not filtering?
I am putting together this band pass filter for a guitar project but it doesn't seem to be working. Here is the diagram and the breadboard I'm working with. There is a button there that isn't doing ...
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Replacing 1960s Motor Capacitor - Vintage Sewing Machine
I'm restoring a 1960s sewing machine (a Necchi Lydia 544, pure italian-made robustness). Inside of the foot pedal a capacitor is completely dead (gets hot and fume). I'm confident into changing it, ...
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RC delay only on negative input voltage transition
I would like to construct an RC delay circuit that has no filtering/delay when my gpio transitions to voltage logic high (Vlh) but does filter the voltage as the pin transition to voltage logic low (...
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Dual brushed motors digital controller works on only one side
I'm actually developing a way to control, digitally, the speed of brushed motors with a Raspberry Pi.
To do so, I use the following diagram where:
The raspberry controls the shift registers (purple) ...
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Instrumentation box, digital input signal conditioning [duplicate]
I'm designing an instrumentation box with opto-coupled digital inputs (BNC). For better noise/ground loops immunity/signal reflections I added 50 ohm resistors and 1n filtering capacitor (if needed). ...
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Custom LED light bulb protection /
I wanted to design a custom LED light bulb, so I bought a couple and tore them down in the hope to reverse engineer them.
Most of them implement a circuit with a chip shown as below, with the circuit ...
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"Rounding" a square wave's corners?
I'm trying to create a keying envelope for sending morse code without nasty clicking and the consequential excess bandwidth.
My current plan is to take the switching (essentially a square, but not-...
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How do you interpret LTSpice graphs?
I've created a circuit in LTSpice to model a fan assembly I'm looking to build. In the below circuit the current sources represent the fan and the voltage sources represent the voltage source I'll be ...
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Car power supply filtering circuit check
Could someone give me some advice if the power supply filtering on my automotive project is OK? The project will be running in a 12 V car, and pull around 4 to 5 A max.
I have use a PMOSFET for ...
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Improved method of instrumentation amplifier input noise and RFI filtering
The following circuit diagrams are taken out of Niel Albaugh's The Instrumentation Amplifier Handbook
I understand how the RC (tolerances) mismatches in Figure 4-16 (left circuit) cause the two time ...
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What does this transistor circuit do?
I found a schematic which had this bit of circuitry between the +9 V (which apparently the author assumed to be > 9 V, more like 10-11 V) barrel connector and the +9 V supply rail.
I tried to ...
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EKF Design And System Augmentation Bearings Only Tracking
I am hoping someone can help me with some guidance or knowledge on the matter. Basically im setting up a "Bearings Only Tracking" simulation using the EKF/UKF toolbox within Matlab. I have a ...
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Electro magnetic interferences (EMI) generated by power circuit reset low voltage integrated circuits (ICs)
The main question here is (explanation will follow):
Is there a way to filter out low voltage oscillations (>10MHz) on pins that have to stay high for the system to function? Oscillations are ...
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Question about Third order Butterworth Filter Design
I'm new to PSpice and filter design and I'm trying to design a third order Low pass Butterworth Filter with cut-off frequency = 10 Hz. Here is the circuit that I've designed:
I've applied a 5V ...
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Is it easy to siphon power from a powered antenna?
I have a property which is in a bit of a hole. My driveway goes up to an elevation above my house where semi-local TV signals are present. When they were still in local business, I bought a powered ...
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Differential filters: high pass, low pass, band pass
I am looking to use a band pass filter in an EMG circuit design using the differential signals you receive from an op amp (differential/instrumentation). I have been looking for what is the proper way ...
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Matlab code to determine and plot impulse response
I have a signal y[n], represented by the vector y in this form
y[n] =x[n] + ax[n−N]
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x[n] is the uncorrupted speech signal which has been delayed by N samples and added back in ...
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Shifting level voltage of a signal
I have a signal, which can vary from 400 to 7000 Hz approximately. It is a kind of pwm signal and has the time of high level, Ton, 30 times longer than the time of low level, Toff. The shape of the ...
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Automotive tachometer signal interpretation
I'm trying to build a custom dashboard for a car (Daewoo Lanos 1998 with Delco ECU). Tachometer signal, that comes to dashboard with a separate wire looks a bit strange to me. It seems that the signal ...
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Inducing noise for testing AC line filters
From a previous post of mine, you can see that I am trying to test the efficacy of some AC line filters. I got it to connect properly this time without frying my load, but we cannot seem to replicate ...
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EMI filtering on multi-FFC assembly
an aspiring electronics engineer here. I do some electronics design for work and I'd like to know the following:
If I have an assembly of a main board, to which an FFC cable connects into a second ...
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Is a higher capacitance rating ok for filtering?
I am newer to electronic design and bought the mpu6050 sensor chip, which the documentation can be found here:
https://datasheet.lcsc.com/szlcsc/TDK-InvenSense-MPU-6050_C24112.pdf
It says that pin 20 ...
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Ferrite bead pi-filter vs feed through capacitors in supply decoupling
How do I choose a feed through (feedthrough/feed-through?) capacitor to replace a ferrite bead pi-filter circuit? Manufacturers quote capacitance figures but what value should I choose this to be?
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Funtional role of op amps in a ADC filter circuit
I am a student trying to reverse engineer a rather interesting PCB, trying to learn from it but have come across some circuits that I am struggling to identify the roles of.
This is the first part.
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Twin notch filter working
Can someone please explain to me in depth as to how this twin notch circuit is working. Also is what is the formula for finding the notch frequency because some sites give the answer as (1/2×pi×RC) ...
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Isolating A Noisy Component In A Circuit
I've been working on a project the past couple months or so and I am incorporating an lcd touch screen as an interface for it. The device is a small digital synthesizer. The problem I am having is ...
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Would an 8 order analog filter be enough for creating a bandpass filter of 8-40 hz?
I am creating a project in which I need to an analog active bandpass filter. The opamps used in the active filters do need any feedback hence are more like comparators. There is a power line noise of ...
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Audio filtering circuit with capacitor shorted
I was looking at the Adafruit FONA cellular network modem breakout board schematic and found something that I can't quite understand. The breakout board has an audio input and output that both goes ...
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Conversion of a signal to digital pulses
The following signal is presented to me, and will vary in freq, but not amplitude from 10Hz up to around 25 KHz.
Any ideas for a simple circuit that will convert this into a clean 3V3 square wave for ...
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Filtering of a 5 V square wave
We are building a system that interfaces an approx 3-20 KHz square wave that comes from an engines crank position sensor. It is an open collector sensor, so we have a 1 KOhm pullup in our system to ...
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Determining equivalent resistance to find the cutoff frequency
I am designing a low noise circuit for a precision application and require a stable voltage supplied to the circuit. I have determined that the MAX6250 voltage reference best suits my circuit. A ...
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How ac coupling in scopes does not give you a phase shift? Or does it?
For what i know, filtering something always gives some amount of phase shift.
So how do oscilloscopes with ac coupling don't have that?
Do they correct in software? If so, how they used to do it at ...
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Step Down Switching Regulator irregularity with ripple on output
Using the L5973D- I have followed the Schematic as the datasheet instructs, but I have tried two different inductors. I have found problems with other systems on the board with the one inductor (744 ...
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Filtering current spikes in photodiode transistor selector
I am building a circuit for sensing photocurrent from a photodiode. The diodes are manufactured with selection transistors to form an active matrix and below is a model of a single pixel consisting of ...
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12V Jacob's Ladder circuit introducing noise on input and messing with PSU
I have made a Jacob's Ladder display for fun.
I have no oscilloscope to give exact details, but there must be some kind of noise or high-voltage ripple that is resetting the display of my Lab Power ...
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Continuous Filter design for measure signals from Boost Converter out
So, I found a simulation that uses PID to control the voltage of a DC bus, for voltage measure the author use a "func transfer" in simulink. I wish to know what kind of filter he design and how can I ...
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Usage Of Static Electricity To Remove Dust?
If I have a fine metal mesh -- say a stainless steel mesh at 50 micron, and I'm having dust build up on it, can I use static electricity to remove the dust? I have another mesh that's 500 micron, and ...
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How to choose a cut-off frequency by interpreting FFT
I have a question concerning low pass filtering of IMU acceleration and gyro data. To choose a reasonable cut-off frequency, I thought about making some observations in the spectrum.
Now I have some ...
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Why aren't there any 400V ultracapacitors?
I thought that ulracaps could be better than electrolytic ones for filtering after a bridge rectifier in a compact switching power supply due to their higher energy density. But, for some reason, I ...
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What happens to Filtered High Frequency Noise?
How to filter out high frequency noise from power supplies has been covered ad nauseum, but no one ever discusses what actually happens to the noise itself. Surely it doesn't just disappear? My ...
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How to filter a signal through a differential amplifier
An input signal must be scaled and biased for an ADC (MCU is TMS320F28027). I following an answer for a previous post.
Figure 1: Original answer
If the signal needs to be filtered with a cutoff ...
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Speaker Cross-Over Network and Power Design
I have some speakers I want to drive from a single output: a 4Ohm 300W Subwoofer, a 6.44 Ohm 60W Midrange, and 2 8Ohm 3W Tweeters. All ratings are RMS.
I know that if I were to wire all of these in ...
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Is possible compute the bandwidth of a Narrowband Twin-T Passive Notch Filter?
Exist any function of R and C, for calculate f1 and f2 at figure below?
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AC through Inductor
I know that Inductor opposes an instant change in current direction. But it is used in AC circuits and in low pass filter circuits. It's a little bit confusing for me. If it resists instant change in ...
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Calculation of ripple voltage after rectifier (equation from TAOE)
I am reading The Art of Electronics, Third Edition by Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill but I feel like I am missing something when the book comes to talk about (begins to, instead) Power-supply ...
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Unwanted voltages in inverter
simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab
At the top is a schematic of an H-bridge that I built. Im conducting experiments where I attempt to use it as an inverter. I built a ...
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Active filter and sine to square conversion issues
Background: I am currently using a SparkFun Electret Microphone and I need to both filter and amplify the signal before turning it into a square wave to be interpreted by an FPGA.
The mic itself has a ...
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Smoothing sparsely sampled signal
I am looking for a method to smooth a very sparsely sampled signal, which is shown below. Digital filters did not work very well, because for achieving an acceptable smoothness of the offset, the peak ...
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Killing Kickback with capacitors
I am having some problems with an active rectifier (AFE unit) that produces a 8 kHz and a 50 Hz component on my DC.
We have bult in a normal standard Low-pass filter that deals with the 8 kHz, so no ...
