Questions tagged [noise]
About issues caused by electrical noise, or improving the Signal/Noise ratio of an analog circuit.
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Suppressing Noise without Earthing
We have designed an HMI, which will contain a 10.1" TFT with PCAP touch panel.
I am using an enclosed power supply to convert the 230V AC to 12V DC. Only DC positive and negative is connected to my ...
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How to protect my 555 timer against DC motor noise?
I have this circuit:
(Sorry for such a bad schematic.)
As you can see, there is a DC motor that gets power from 12V source, using a NPN transistor controlled by a 0-5V signal.
Please note that ...
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How to choose R and C to reduce noise on analog input of arduino?
I'm not terribly proficient when it comes to hardware, so please bear with me.
I've tried to google around to figure out how to choose values for a low pass filter to reduce noise on a potentiometer. ...
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Thermal Noise autocorrelation and time domain analysis
I have some doubts about the termal noise of a real resistor.
The equivalent model of a noisy resistor is this one (here the reference):
Here there is the model of a noisy resistive network:
I ...
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XS-3868 module stops noise for 5 seconds, how to make it longer
I've made a bluetooth audio receiver using XS-3868 module (using this diagram) and connected a TP4056 charger module and a lithium-ion battery too. Everything works fine.
When the charger module is ...
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schmitt trigger and noise
I know that a Schmitt trigger is used to reduce noise in a circuit, but why does noise need to be reduced.
How does noise effect the overall circuit and what benefits do you achieve by reducing noise ...
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What makes noise heteroscedastic?
I work in the field of spectroscopy, for instance NMR and FT-IR. For both of these instruments, the advice is to process the data to compensate for heteroscedasticity -- noise that increases as the ...
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Fan is causing noise in the circuit
I'm in the process building a linear lab PSU, the fan which is supposed to cool the heatsink is causing 6 mV peak to peak noise at the output of PSU. It's a 4x4 cm brushless chinese fan with unknown ...
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Ripple on tens-millivolts sinus waveform
I’m trying to make a DDS to generate a sinusoidal signal with tens to hundreds of millivolt amplitude and hundreds kHz frequency using an LTC1666 DAC. But I have some confusing results. Device ...
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SDA pin on I2C lines seems weird
I am trying to analyze the I2C commands sent by a PC software to R3910 DSP chip
The software uses a programming box (provided by the same company that manufactures the R3910 chip) to communicate ...
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Fixing power supply interference issue (?)
I am working on a project that involves controlling WS2812B led strips using a Teensy 4.0 microcontroller. I got everything working during the testing phase, but now, after transitioning from ...
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Decoupling Capacitors: What happens to the DC on the cap once noise is introduced and it shorts?
simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab
I've been using decoupling caps for a while now and I understand their purpose in keeping DC signals clean since capacitors allow high ...
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Do I use this equation for a Friis law question
I am just puzzled as the question gives two gains.
The question is below
input receiver has a noise figure of 4db and a power gain of 5db. It is followed by a mixer stage of with a noise figure of 3....
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Understanding the circuit diagrams for white noise generators
I'm a huge neophyte when it comes to electronics, and I'm trying to work out how to create a white noise generator for a project. I've been looking at some to base my examples off of. One of which is ...
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How do I connect noise reduction capacitors for “stacked” TI REF102 chips?
The datasheet for TI's REF102 shows a method for "stacking" multiple ICs to obtain voltages in multiples of 10V. Two stacked REF102 ICs gives you 20V, 3 gives you 30, etc. I've tried hard to copy the ...
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lots of 3d sound in handsfree [closed]
My earphone gives lots of 3d sounds and when i eject little bit it sounds good, actually i’m repairing i-e change of jack. Kindly help
Your reply will be highly obliged.
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Is noise density over a bandwidth a measure of the noise's standard deviation?
Suppose I have a sensor which has a dominant white gaussian noise source, a \$1\textit{unit}/\sqrt{Hz}\$ noise density and a bandwidth of 100Hz. Then the noise becomes 10\$units\$. Is this a measure ...
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How to measure Johnson Noise precisely experimentally?
I want measure Johnson Noise across a resistor having certain over the certain range of frequency or bandwidth practically. I am starting from scratch, how can I build circuitry and instrumentation so ...
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How close can an output transformer be to a preamp tube?
Imagine a layout for a tube amplifier. The power transformer is on one side, and the output transformer, input jack, and preamp tubes are on the other side. (Take a look at the Soldano SLO for example)...
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Is capacitor noise due to observed step charging?
According to Tom Bearden and Per Wallander the capacitor step charges and step discharges. Se for example Per Wallander, My way of understanding
electromagnetism, section 2.3 page 13:
What we see ...
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Thermal Noise in Oscillators
let's consider this circuital model for an LC oscillator in which the parasitic resistance R is affected by thermal noise (represented here with an equivalent noise current source, according to the ...
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What does these heatsinks do?
I think sharing the video will be the easiest way of describing the situation.
The transistors are electrically isolated from the heatsinks, I have checked with multimeter.
Few days ago, I have ...
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Why connecting oscilloscope reduces noise [duplicate]
I am doing a speaker driver circuit. When I connect the oscilloscope probe to the output (emitters of npn/pnp complementaries) to where also the speaker is connected; the sound of speaker and the ...
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Johnson Noise Measurement
How to measure Johnson Noise precisely practically?
I tried using opamp/ low noise amplifier in cascade with band pass filter followed by multiplier circuit (squaring signal) and measured output ...
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Where might the noise be coming from in this speaker driver circuit?
Well, it will be a broad schematic. To summarize, there my approach is:
Yellow part is for oscilations at three different freqs(around 0.8 - 2 kHz, different for each of the three signals), ...
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Should I ground the heatsink?
I am using an npn transistor in TO-220 package, and its collector is electrically connected to the metal part on it. I have checked it via a multimeter. I use a heatsink for that transistor, with ...
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Johnson–Nyquist Noise of Open Circuit
Johnson–Nyquist Noise increases with resistance - so does it become infinite for an open circuit? Specifically why is the input to an oscilloscope that is not connected to anything not completely ...
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Reactive Input Impedance for Current Noise
I am reading about op amp noise in the app note here. Page 3 mentions:
"Current noise is only important when it flows in an impedance, and thus generates a noise voltage. Maintaining relatively low ...
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Ethernet Link is going down while applying EFT pulses on Power Port
We have conducted our system for EFT test as per IEC-61000-4-4. We have applied EFT on the AC side of the AC-DC power supply. We are using the power supply HWS50A-12/A from TDK-Lambda. As per the ...
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Ground offset or common mode noise voltage
This is just a small doubt I would like to clear.
Suppose I have a buck regulator providing output at 5V and 1A.
Suppose I measure the output voltage at the ground pad of the output capacitor and it ...
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Very long PCB trace causing microcontroller to wakeup?
I have a design where I'm using an ESP32 as the device's main controller. The system is battery powered, so the ESP is in deep-sleep a lot. It can be woken up with a simple button push (detecting for ...
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Noise generated by monitor from Word document
I was zooming in and out of Word documents of only text and noticed that a noise was produced. The noise increased in pitch as I zoomed out and decreased as I zoomed in. I tried changing the font ...
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Obtaining Accurate Measurements from Strain Gauge
Background I have a strain gauge that I need to obtain measurements from. The product page indicates that the sensor is a half bridge configuration (one active/one compensating element). The sensor ...
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Purpose/Difficulties of having a common mode choke
This question is related to common mode choke.
I know I have asked this question a couple of times in this forum and I have also read related questions and answers. But I am not able to get the total ...
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How to conclude the nature of interference for such scenarios?
This is abit a hypothetical question. Imagine a signal chain where a AC-DC power supply is powering a transducer and the transducer output is coupled to a data acquisition input by a BNC cable.
Or I ...
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noisy power supply for electric guitar pedal
I'm building a pedals board for an electric guitar. In order to have better integration, I replaced the wall wart power supply that was doing the job by this (BTW, the wall wart power supply is also a ...
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Low pass LC filter goes “wrong” with capacitive load
I have been experimenting with this circuit:
simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab
Vin has a lower frequency ripple of 2V and a high frequency (switching?) noise of 6.5V. ...
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Order of op amp cascade to reduce noise
I am currently designing a little circuit to amplify a weak signal with two sequential op amps. To reduce the noise at the output of the two amplifiers, what would be the best order to place these ...
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Optical displacement sensor noise and current to voltage conversion
I'm currently involved in a project with the aim of measuring the tremor of mice limbs (displacements of about 100 um). The sensor my group has chosen is TCRT5000 (Vishay), but we are facing several ...
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How do I convert a Eb/No from a dB value to a linear value
So for example how would I convert an Eb/No value of 2dB into a linear value?
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Balanced impedance CM and DM stages EMI Filtering
Here is the following assertion :
I would like to understand why line impedance imbalance can cause CM noise to get converted into DM noise ?
Thank you very much !
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Ground Antenna Madness?
When I hold my oscilloscope probe and ground clip out in the air, I get a noisy ripple with a predictable pattern. Nothing unusual here.
When I touch the tip of the probe to the ground clip, I get a ...
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Effective impedance calculation for noise removal from supply
I am working on single supply Op-Amp amplifier, referring to this post. While calculating the value of the capacitor C2, as to pass all the noise from the supply to the ground. I am unable to ...
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How to generate different noise in LTspice from run to run
I'm trying to simulate noise in my circuit, and ideally want to get a histogram of a certain parameter affected by that noise over many runs. However, when I use the white() command in LTspice, or ...
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How to improve SNR by averaging multiple identical sensors - hardware or software?
My application uses a MEMS microphone amplified by an AD8429 instrumentation amplifier with a bandpass filter to acquire signals. The phenomena I'm measuring occurs at a specific frequency and so I ...
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Noise on probe while measuring Switching Frequency of Buck Converter
I have a buck converter and I am measuring the voltage ripple at the output capacitor along with that I am measuring the switching frequency at the cathode of the diode. Please refer the below image. ...
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Can this be CM related noise?
In a single ended data acquisition system a DAQ board is sampling channels in a multiplexed way. The DAQ is single ended as well as the input signals.
When I use two analog transducers coupled to two ...
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From noise spectral density to equivalent short circuit input RMS noise
I have an acquisition system that is supposed to be low noise. It acquires from an ADC into a wav file. I read this file and process it with Matlab. Then, being "x" the array with time signal, Fs the ...
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Op amp output voltage swing vs noise
Staying within an op amp's specified output voltage range, how does a difference in output swing affect the op amp's noise applied to the output signal? Obviously by increasing gain, we amplify the op ...
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Problem with transient on power rails
I have an AC to DC converter that outputs 5V. I then run this into 2 regulators on my board. The 4.2V regulator goes into a cellular module, and the 3.3V regulator goes into a microcontroller. I ...
