Questions tagged [noise]
About issues caused by electrical noise, or improving the Signal/Noise ratio of an analog circuit.
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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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Noise on my oscilloscope when probing a wire
I am prototyping a NTC voltage divider circuit and I am having trouble with noise on my probe. It seems like I am constantly getting a large amount of noise (200-300mv) on my oscilloscope waveform ...
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Crosstalk between AC and DC
First time asking a question but I've come across something I just can't find the answer to. Whether or not it's because a silly question I hope to find out.
So I understand that with crosstalk ...
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Noisy Signal over FFC
I have an FFC connector between a Raspberry Pi camera and a PCB which is in turn connected to a Raspberry Pi. The signal over this is noisy and usually causes the RPI to freeze when I try to take ...
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How do I get rid of switching noise from these types of DCDC converters?
I am using a lot of these types of isolated DCDC converters for measurement circuits: https://power.murata.com/data/power/ncl/kdc_nmv.pdf
The problem is they introduce so much switching noise. I try ...
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Initial noise prior to square pulse
I have a high voltage system (~5kV) to generate pulsed spark. I was able to detect the spark ignition. It has been shown in the images by the yellow line. This signal will be used to generate another ...
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Ferrite bead for high-speed digital IC
Although I've seen numerous recommendations for the use of FBs on the power supply rails of noise-sensitive analog circuitry, the opinions regarding their use with high-speed digital circuitry are ...
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Connecting bandpass filter to comparator generating excess noise
I have a band pass filter with a center frequency of 100kHz, a bandwidth of 10kHz, and a gain close to 1. Input signal is 100mV-150mV peak to peak with frequencies varying from 80kHz to 120kHz. I am ...
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How can I remove 1.4MHz and 150kHz switching noise?
(Please excuse my English)
I have two types of DC-DC step-down(buck) converter modules, and the switching frequencies of the converter modules are 1.4MHz and 150kHz each.
The two converter modules ...
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Touch screen smartphone stops working during charge [closed]
Goodmorning everyone,
I'd like to ask a question about a fact that happened yesterday. While I was charging the smartphone through an "unofficial" charger, I've noticed that the touch screen stopped ...
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Unwanted buzzing and reduced volume in a basic speaker set
I have the following device, which basically contains 18 songs. we can play the next song by switching the switch on and off. It also has a volume control.
Recently it started to buzz a lot and the ...
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How to separate ground efficiently in a thyristor circuit controlled by sensitive microcontroller
I've been trying to design capacitive discharge ignition circuits using a microcontroller ARM (Texas and ST) without success. Each circuit using them presents intereference problems during spark ...
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How to reduce spike in Power Supply and GND (SCR + Ignition Coil)
My circuit:
Signal coupled in power supply (3.3V) of STM32F103 during spark:
Is there any benefit to using this diode (circled in red) or not (without this diode the snubber circuit will start ...
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Estimation of signal from noisy data
I am designing a PID controller for my beam steering application. I have lateral position sensor detector (PSD) PSD LINK to detect the position of beam. The problem is that the output of sensor seems ...
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What effect does a logic analyzer probe have on a circuit?
I have an MCU controlling a LED sign. This sign speaks the HUB75 protocol, which is essentially a large shift register. Being a shift register, this requires a clock signal to be generated, which the ...
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Link between phase noise and linewidth for a oscillator?
I was googling for a formula to transform the dbc/Hz value given in data sheets for VNA, spectrum analyzers and VCO is often given in dBc/Hz with offset. Now looking up research papers about future ...
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Reduce Noise Added With Zener Clipper
I'm working on a hobby Arduino project to create an audio visualizer using an LED strip. I'm using the MSGEQ7 to separate the signal into 7 bands, then send it to a Wemos D1 Mini. I started by ...
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perceived loudness of noise vs. sine wave
I am trying to understand what gains I need to use each for a white noise generator and a pink noise generator for a human ear to perceive the loudness to be the same as it is for a 440 Hz sine wave ...
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Linear Regulator PCB placement
I'm designing a PCB with some noise-sensitive components (FPGA, RF mixer, etc.). For the power systems I've decided to chain switching regulators to LDO regulators so that I get less heat dissipation ...
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Noise generator with LM318
I want to build a noise generator from a Zener diode. I designed the above circuit. The noisy voltage from the diode is filtered via a high-pass filter and input into a 92x gain non-inverting ...
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What is the ENBW of a Sigma-Delta ADC?
How do you determine the equivalent noise bandwidth (ENBW) of the digital filter in a ΣΔ ADC? For an analog filter of known order this is straightforward, but, is there a way to estimate the ENBW of a ...
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Noise addition. Sum of shot and thermal noise
The situation is as in the picture. I've made the resistance small compared to that of the tunnel junction so the thermal noise of the tunnel junction can be ignored, since the thermal noise in the ...
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Why does low power factor make my LED bulb and clock radio flicker at 0.2 to 3 Hz?
[California, USA, regular 110 V power.]
I'm reading the power factor of my "Late 2013" 27-inch iMac using a P3 P4400 Kill-A-Watt. It reads 0.95 when operating normally (60 to 120 W), but when ...
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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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Multimeter across Power Line voltage varies wildly
I'm building a single switched AC/DC Forward Converter and have reached to the point where I have steady o/p voltages and currents.
However, I am not able to remove noise that goes back into the AC ...
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ADC wire is picking up noise from cellular antenna [EMC]
I have a 5 wire micro jst cable with a line for ADC readings from an IR sensor that is picking up interference from the cellular antenna of the microcontroller. Will I be able to reduce this noise if ...
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Mixed digital/analog rails and level-shifting components best practices
I am designing a board with a ±2.5V analog domain and a 3.3V digital domain where space is at a premium. Digital and analog grounds only connect at a single point near the supplies. As such I am using/...
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STM32F4 ADC oscillating
I am trying to read the ADC of a STM32F4. The code skeleton was generated by CubeMX, the HAL library is used. The read values are feasible but have periodic noise, as seen here:
The plot was ...
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Gyroscope drift in IMU
So, a brief foreword. I'm not sure if this question belongs here or in the DSP community, its closely related to both, but I have a feeling this will be more of interest here nonetheless, so I am ...
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Opamp noise: When is a resistor in the signal path?
I am confused as to when a resistor is considered to be in the signal path and when its not when it comes to opamp noise calculations. For instance, take the following circuit:
simulate this circuit &...
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How to reduce noise caused by interaction of two power supplies in a circuit?
This question is related to MEMS (micro-eletrical-mechanical-engineering), please allow me briefly introduce the actual background of this question.
Background
I found an interesting displacement ...
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How close to a stepper motor do I need to shield the wires?
I am trying to shield the cabling on my CNC mill. The motors, unfortunately, do not have connectors but instead have wire leads coming out from the motor housing. I can cut those wires about an inch ...
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Oscilloscope averaging and standard quantum limit
Oscilloscopes give a Vrms noise and have a noise floor, but if I average for a long time to infinity, am I at the standard quantum limit and does SNR keep improving with the sqrt(N averages) forever?
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Can I control a Sanyo Denki fan to operate with uniform noise?
I bought this replacement Sanyo Denki fan for my air purifier. The sound out of that fan is louder than the other two pre-installed fans. The original fans mfg is out of business, and replacement ...
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Strategies to reduce EMF radiation
During a long-term, almost six month long, data acquisition in a proximity of scanning electron microscope I have found a significant source of magnetic field noise, which is altering the results. I ...
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Sound sensor not working when connected to DC motor
I made a small circuit to control a DC motor with a sound sensor, using an ATtiny 85 and an L293D.
It worked on breadboard, but now that I have a prototype PCB it ceases to work. Whenever I connect ...
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Noise on Input Buttons for H-Bridge
I'm constructing an H-Bridge to control a linear actuator. I've done so by using a 2-channel relay module, some buttons, and a ESP32. I do not believe this is an issue of debouncing as I account for ...
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Decoupling capacitors introduce more noise on transmitter power amplifier
I have an issue that I can't understand and looking for your help to give me some insight to solve it.
I'm using a module named dw1000 that is used to measure distance using UWB at 6.4Ghz, 3.95 Ghz......
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What's causing the audible 7/8th rhythm in Qi chargers?
I have a wireless Qi charging system for my mobile phone. When I put the phone into the cradle it starts getting charged and I can hear a very quiet noise coming from the arrangement. Other ...
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Noise Temperature of Antenna [closed]
A microwave receiving antenna on a satellite is pointing towards the earth. The antenna beamwidth is 50 degrees, the earth subtends 5 degrees at the satellite. What will be the noise temperature of ...
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Prevent small signal with noise
I am designing a Conductivity Meter by using Arduino.
I used ad9850 to generate a sin wave with 1khz and peak to peak 20mV.
but there is a bit of noise with my output Signal
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Bose QC20 in-ear headphones 50Hz buzzing noise on PC
When I plug my Bose QC20 on the PC, I hear a low volume 50Hz buzzing noise.
Some interesting facts:
When I touch a metal part (PC case, keyboard) the noise is gone.
I have this noise on all USB ...
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What's the source of this noise in my Arduino oscillator?
I've been experimenting with techniques to rapidly switch on and off the digital output pins in an Arduino. This is the code I use:
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Troubleshooting TL071 to TA8207 100 Hertz hum
I worked out to build a pre-amplifier connected to a power driver in a single setups(a pcb). Problem arises when it's powered up. here are a few questions.
Setup has a TL071CP as preamp with a unity ...
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How can I eliminate the noise in this case?
As a part of a big system Arduino is being affected from a switch outside(so the spike is not always there only when an outside switch or surge happens ect.) and I guess through its USB producing ...
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How to reduce noise in SMPS (Switching mode power supply) circuit
I am just using a reference design of SMPS (from Microchip) to boost input voltage from 12V to 90V as the image below:
It's working normally but the problem is the noise at the output of 90V.
I ...
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How can I model a circuit for this noise coupling phenomenon
A shielded Wheatstone type force transducer FT is mounted on a metallic structure and through its cable is connected to an industrial amplifier module Amp(I gave the names in the below illustration). ...
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How phase modulation changes spectrum?
I'm studying amplitude,frequency and phase modulations for an exam. I just studied amplitude and frequency modulations, however i didn't succeed in understanding how the phase modulation changes the ...
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Splitting an Analog Signal Without Adding Noise
I am trying to take a current measurement, run it into a PCB that splits the signal, and then output the signal in two places. One of the destinations is a RIO being used for feedback control, the ...
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smps power plane
I am designing an ultra low noise SMPS with 4 layer PCB. On the first layer I have components and power traces. On the second layer I have a whole GND plane. My question is: for the 3 plane (power ...
