Questions tagged [floating]
A voltage that is not connected by any conducting path (including resistors) to ground or the key voltage reference point.
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EMC - conducted emissions - unused wires in cable - puzzling coupling
I am trying to understand the impact of unconnected wires in a cable for EMC conducted emissions tests.
My product has a shared unshielded cable for supply and communication (I know it's bad practice....
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Sensing of AC current. Isolation Capacitor Problems?
I want to measure the AC Current flowing through a Piezocrystal (replaced in the circuit with a resistor) being driven by a TI DRV2700. http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/drv2700.pdf
This Chip puts out ...
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About floating ground and circuit problems
Good morning,
I have a power supply with floating ground that drives my circuit.
Since the circuit doesn't work as expected (it works fine only if the ground is tied to earth) I did some measures with ...
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Is a floating pin equivalent to a very weak pull down?
I know that if a MCU pin is configured as "input" and it is not connected to any pull up/ pull down resistor, it is said to be floating.
In this situation, we could say that the pin is in series with ...
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Why can a MCU input floating pin easily change state?
I would like a technical ("engineering") explanation of why a MCU input floating pin can easily change its state depending on the outside electromagnetic interference.
Is it related to the fact that ...
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How to handle disconnected resistive sensor?
I'm trying to connect a PT100 thermo probe to an Arduino project to measure water temperature. After some research I have found and adopted a design using a Wheatstone bridge and an instrumentation ...
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Is a pull up/down resistor really necessary?
Logical reading (1 or 0) of a micro-controller input GPIO pin may float if it is neither connected to VCC nor GND; someone said it is because of surrounding RF interference.
When a floating GPIO ...
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How can I simulate the circuit with floating node in Orcad simulation?
I simulated to test 4n25 optocoupler.
6 pin in 4n25 is base of output transistor.
According to google, 6 pin can be not connect pin (NC) because input LED
generate the base signal.
Orcad ...
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555 Timer Output Always V+ or Ground?
If the output of the 555 timer is not trigger to high, is it ground? Or is the output left floating?
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Floating Power Supplies
Referring to this post, is it possible to float power supplies by simply not connecting the ground wire?
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Constant Offset Floating Supply
What circuits can be used to provide a voltage supply capable of sinking around 1A of current that will always float 10ish volts below a given supply, that could be from 12 to 200 volts?
I have ...
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Unused/floating pins on BTS5016
I plan to use Infineons PROFET BTS5016 in a coming project.
https://www.infineon.com/dgdl/Infineon-BTS5016-2EKA-DS-v01_00-EN.pdf?fileId=5546d4625a888733015aa41a5e161129
I will not use the ...
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Floating analog input value
To use my sensor I need to supply 24V. So I converted 4.5 V from battery pack to 24V and converted it again to 0-1.66V using a voltage divider. So far I can read the output of the sensor using the ...
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Micron NOR unused pins have pull-ups. Any danger just leaving them there?
I have a board designed for a dual-die Micron MT25QL512 QSPI NOR flash. These parts are in short supply, but the board fabricator had some single-die MT25QL128, and used them instead. The single-die ...
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Measuring small currents at DC high voltages without floating meter
I'm doing a project with a Cockcroft-Walton multiplier that will output up to 40 kV DC at up to 10 mA. The the circuit takes an input of 10 kV AC at 60 mA and 60 Hz (from a neon sign transformer) and ...
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How can I float a pin that otherwise should be low?
I want to enable/disable a TI TPS54302 buck regulator with a microcontroller. The enable (EN) pin should float to enable the device, or be tied low to disable it.
I currently have the EN pin ...
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Consequences of leaving unused inputs of clock buffer floating. Alternative: best practice
I'm using a Si53342-B-GM
Original datasheet download at silabs for the si5334x-series
as a clock buffer.
In some cases I only need to distribute a single clock signal and in some of my cases I ...
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Why does a pull down resistor eliminate floating input
Ever since I connected a button to an Arduino for the first time, I've wondered how does the resistor prevent floating input from happening? I've read several answers to similar questions, seen videos ...
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Floating input in Op-amp Readout Circuit?
I was analyzing this circuit diagram in a thesis about a capacitive EEG electrode. The author talks about a flaw in the design where there is a "floating analogue input" that is causing the op-amp to ...
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Isolated power supply with output on a 2kVDC floating ground
I am building a system of detectors which are referenced to independent floating grounds. The maximum voltage between each stage is 2kVDC. So I need isolated supplies which can operate continuously at ...
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Floating neutral in TN-S or TN-C-S earthing system
Since neutral is bonded to ground at building distribution point in a TN-S or TN-C-S earthing system, could floating neutral happen under the following conditions:
Loss of N and/or PE at transformer
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What is the right way to float a home lab?
I just got myself some new toys for my lab at home like 30V DC power supply, KKmoon signal generator and a Rigol DS1052E. I want to float everything, because I don't want to spend any money on stuff ...
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Is it possible to get a floating power supply to power multiple MOSFETs
Hey guys this is my first post on stack exchange so please go easy on me!
I have a hobby project where I was trying to make a few batteries go in series using a micro controller and a floating power ...
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Can I leave it unconnected pins in the level shifter?
My concern is that pins are connected between DB25 and TXS0108E, but are not connected between TXS0108E and the Header 5x2. There is only the tracks between TXS0108 and the Header 5x2, but there is no ...
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Floating DC power supply (solar panels) - do I need double-pole breakers and why?
I am in the process of building a small off-grid solar setup.
There will be 4 parallel strings of panels in this setup, and I understand that for 3 or more strings, you need some sort of over-current ...
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Floating Source Voltage Difference to Earth
I was reading about floating voltage on web but there is something that I couldn't understand. I attached photo of circuit. As you see it shows 60v difference between neutral of flating source and ...
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Can I leave the input pins of an ADC channel in floating state?
I'm using this 4-channel ADC: MCP3422 -> Datasheet
I only need to use 3 of the available 4 input channels in total.
Normally I would add footprints for pulldown resistors for example in case a ...
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How do actively driven mosfets or transistors react to floating source?
Attempting to add some lights to a car's "intelligent" lighting system. Want to make sure I understand how my n-channel mosfets will react to losing their ground, while their gates are still connected....
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Floating analog input using Arduino with 1m cable
I use an analog input from an Arduino to read the value from a piezo plugged in parallel with a 1M ohm resistor.
I followed this tutorial from Arduino: https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Knock
Here ...
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Trying to understand floating voltage
I'm trying to understand the concept of a floated voltage, and why it is needed in some cases.
For my own case, I am using a variac connected to a rectifier to provide a DC voltage for a circuit, (...
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What does floating source mean in this context?
What makes the load in the below circuit floating?:
Does that mean the load does not have a ground shared with the circuit ground?
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Preventing the voltage between two isolated grounds from exceeding max rating
Consider the low-side current sensing application shown in Figure 1. Grounds 1 and 2 are galvanically isolated. Assume, for example, ground 1 is the NEUTRAL line on mains power (\$V_g\$), and ground 2 ...
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Grounding a Laptop
I have the following problem: I am currently debugging an electronic sensor board which is connected to the USB port of a laptop. The USB port is used both for communication via UART and to supply ...
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Disconnecting ATX PSU's ground from mains earth to protect my oscilloscope
Like many I took an ATX PSU, hooked green to black, and have a nice PSU.
I am experimenting with a HP oscilloscope from 1997 and as you know, those are grounded to main's earth, just like my ATX PSU. ...
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Measuring floating gate potential with minimal leakage current
I am working on a sensing device where the voltage of a floating node is dependent on the quantity to be sensed, as well as the net charge stored in the node. I would like the device to be only ...
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Current source with grounded Load and floating power supply
The following circuit represents a basic op-amp current source and can be found in the "Art of electronics 3rd edition" in page 228.
\$ I_{load} \$ is easy to calculate in this situation.
The ...
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Why is this capacitive circuit not working in both multisim and LTspice
The voltage at the top most node of this circuit should be the average of the input voltages.
Vtop*CT = C1*V1 +C2*V2 +C3*V3 where CT = C1+C2+C3
I get 0V instead.
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Thanks for the help. I ...
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Turning off op amp for low power application high side or low side
I have a design where I am using a LM324 to act as a buffer (unity gain impedence transformation amplifier) to feed the voltage from several high-impendence voltage dividers into my MCU's ADC pins.
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Can I use a source follower to read the floating gate voltage then add a fixed tunneling voltage, then feed it back to the tunneling electrode?
So I was reading this research paper:
H. Kosaka, T. Shibata, H. Ishii, and T. Ohmi, “An excellent weightupdating-linearity
synapse memory cell for self-leaming neuron MOS
neural networks,” in IEDM ...
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Flyback smps or floating buck converter?
I want to drive a 180V/1A string leds from 220VAC.
Which topology should I use:
flyback smps (with transformer) or,
floating buck step down converter?
I know that buck converter will be not ...
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ATmega328p TQFP and unconnected pins, what is it the best practice?
I'm designing a board based on ATmega328p in TQFP package.
I'm not using all the ports, so, for example, ports from PC0->PC5, ADC6 and ADC7 won't be connected to anything.
Can I left them unconnected ...
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Oscilloscope differential measurement for battery powered circuit using single probe
I want to measure the voltage across a resistor in my circuit. The circuit is battery powered. I don't want to use the two probe method and calculate A-B to get the results. Can I use one probe to ...
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Floating Nwell schematic and introduction in a MOS switch
My classmate told me using a mos (body connect drain)as a switch may have leakage current,because there is a parasitic diode in that MOS,so there will have a leakage current.so i have to connect the ...
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floating ground
For a big machine (rope shovel) we put a custom electronics board (gps) in an enclosure. It is connected to the cabinet with Power over ethernet (POE). The POE switch is connected to an isolated power ...
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Confusion with calculating the mantissa of a floating point from a binary number
I use this converter to convert a 32-bit binary number to a floating point number. I first find the hexadecimal of the 32-bit binary number and convert to decimal by using the converter.
In my case ...
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Voltage regulator outputs some voltage even if in shutdown
I've created a dual source energy harvesting board to store energy from small energy sources, like a 3V 15mA solar panel, into a 3F 2.7V supercap and to power a small wireless node (3.3V, 30mA), but I ...
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Understanding Common Floating Return [duplicate]
So I'm pretty new to electronics, and I'm getting slightly hung up on the concept of ground. I'm thinking the circuit diagrams below will help me to explain this frustration, because there's not an ...
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Getting shocked because of floating ground on psu [closed]
Angus from makersmuse explains here how he got shocked from a printer with floating ground.
https://youtu.be/v1OuYg7AJjw
I don't really understand his explanation.
He basically says that if you ...
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Confusion about the meaning of floating
Here they define being floating as:
They mention Ungrounded = Floating.
But in another forum someone wrote:
The signal is consider floating when it does not have the same ground
with your ...
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How can I return an Arduino digital pin to floating state?
I am trying to setup a programmed reset function for a 3.3V BlueTooth module that resets when its reset pin is pulsed LOW for a short period of time. There is a 47K pull-up resistor in the BT module ...
