Questions tagged [piezo]
Piezoelectricity is the electric charge that accumulates in certain solid materials (such as crystals, certain ceramics, and biological matter such as bone, DNA and various proteins) in response to applied mechanical stress.
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Piezo position sensing [closed]
I'm wanting to develop a MIDI drum pad using 4 piezo sensors, what methods/algorithms are available to detect the locate the origin or the vibration?
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How to amplify a signal for piezo transducer from 1 Vpp to 200 Vpp at 400 kHz and 500 pF load
I'm a researcher working with phased ultrasonic transducer arrays.
I need to amplify a sine wave at 400 kHz and 1 Vpp to 200 Vpp. It has a capacitive load of 500 pF.
I'm little ...
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Piezo Transducer - Constant weight increases sensitivity, why?
I currently have a piezoelectric transducer connected up to an Arduino in the following arrangement
The piezo is normally not very sensitive, unless I tap my finger directly on the sensor, or knock ...
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Voltage isolation at IC pin when Vcc=0V
I recently started a project that utilizes a piezo sensor to sense vibrations. The piezo signal is fed to a uC in order to detect vibrations above a certain threshold. However, the piezo's high ...
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Placing piezo disk in vibration sensor
I am designing a vibration sensor in enclosure to be placed on vertical surfaces, like windows, doors, etc.
My first try was with ready made sw420 module, but looks like it is to sensitive for my ...
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How can I get a loud noise out of a 15mm piezo disc?
I need to get an as loud as possible noise out of a 15mm piezo disc, using only the 3V from Arduino.
I know I will have to make some sort of amplifier circuit, and I have attempted to make a basic ...
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Piezo buzzer : transient audible noise when exciting over 20kHz
Let's 2 simple experiments, connect a piezo buzzer like this one to a bench amplifier driven by a function generator like this one. Driving voltage is 10V. Now excite it with a
linear chirp from ...
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Using piezo sensors to locate vibration position
I am working on a project where I have to determine the position of vibration or knock using multiple piezo sensors.
I am using simple piezo discs and reading the voltage signals from the discs using ...
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A peculiar issue in an atomic force microscope [closed]
I'm not sure where else to turn for this issue. Hopefully you all can offer some insight. Sorry the title is so vague, I don't know how to explain this concisely.
I am a teaching assistant for an ...
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Is it possible to suppress oscillation at reactive load (non inverting amp)
I am using a non inverting amp with B class voltage follower to drive a piezoelectric transducer (used as sonar for fish scanning in boats). I am using trains of 20 sinewave pulses (85KHz), like the ...
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Piezo Film Contact Mic to instrument cable
I'm trying to attach an instrument cable to the DT4-028K/L w/rivets (Piezo film) and make something exactly like this Large PVDF Film Tab contact microphone. My only issue is I get large amounts of ...
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How can I reduce the volume of my dryer buzzer?
Like many of us, the buzzer in my dryer is loud as hell. I recently opened up my dryer to repair it and easily found the buzzer and simply disconnected it. However I got to thinking: Could I replace ...
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Mixing Reverse Polarity Protection PMOS with a Piezo Element
I have a circuit that powers some leds when vibrations are detected. I am trying to integrate a PMOS for reverse polarity battery protection.
When the PMOS is present the circuit simulation fails as ...
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Simple push-pull problem
I've made a circuit based on the schematics below, which works fine at simulation. The goal is to add some extra oomph on the output of a LT1210 opa (V1) to drive a piezo element at higher voltages ...
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Oscilloscope Probe - How to measure a sensitive circuit
Help needed in measuring a tiny piezo actuator.
The circuit bangs the actuator with a voltage ( max 50V ), then senses the ripples after the initial actuation.
How can I measure with an oscilloscope ...
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What does “resistor as a reference” means?
I have a book with some projects examples that use Arduino, one of the projects use piezo to detect vibrations. The book says the following:
When plugged into 5V, the sensor (piezo) can detect ...
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Piezoelectric Project
I am currently working on project involving piezoelectricity and I'm in need of some advice. I'm pretty much a beginner, but I've been doing lots of research. I just need input to help fill some gaps. ...
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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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Small axial inductor for piezo disc buzzer?
I'm planning to operate a 15mm piezo disc as a buzzer at about 5 KHz. Can I use a 5mH 0.5W axial inductor for this? Peak current through the inductor is 70 mA, average current 22 mA, average ...
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Modern piezo microphone impedance-matching circuit
I want to record sound with a piezo transducer. I am connecting it to my sound card's input which has a good mic pre-amp. The levels are quite good and the sound seems quite clear but there's a lack ...
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Understanding an ultrasonic piezo driver circuit
[Disclaimer: I'm okay-ish with digital electronics, but somewhat a noob with analog stuff. Since this circuit is a) pretty simple and b) still covers both areas, I was hoping that somebody here could ...
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Driving a voltage boost circuit with a piezo driver circuit
For a university project, I'm creating my own small speaker. This speaker includes a speaker driver circuit consisting of a transistor and 3 resistors (see figure below).
simulate this circuit –...
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Thin plate piezoelectric transducer glued to flat surface in shear mode
I want to glue a piezo plate looking like in the image below such that the wide surface of the plate gets glued onto a flat surface. The image is part of the datasheet from here.
If I apply an AC ...
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High Speed Piezoactuator Driver-Unexpected (Low) Voltage Output
I'm working on a project that requires charging and discharging a piezoactuator (150V, 1.5μF) extremely fast, IE total slew time allowed ~50μs (so somewhere around a 11A pulse). My background is in ...
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Generating PWM from 24 VDC Power Input
I have a Piezo buzzer that has an internal transducer so is able to take 24VDC and work. This one has a continuous sound. Just a beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...
I have a 24V output that needs to power ...
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Does a pickup microphone work in space (vacuum)?
Of course in space there is no sound transmitted via air, so there is no air-borne sound, but there is structure borne sound. This sound can be recorded with a pickup microphone, but do pickup ...
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Low voltage control of 75V piezo actuator
I am looking to perform position control on a 75V piezo linear actuator with a Raspberry pi.
To do so I intend to use a 5V output DAC and some kind of power amplifier to amplify the range between 0V ...
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Driving a ThorLabs piezo controller with TTL external input
I am trying to drive a ThorLabs piezo controller (https://www.thorlabs.com/newgrouppage9.cfm?objectgroup_id=2421&pn=KPZ101) with an external +3.3V TTL signal provided by a microcontroller (using ...
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Piezo impact detection
I'm creating a Nerf gun target with Arduino for my little brother. To detect the impact I was thinking about using piezo's. They would be located on the back of the targets (alimunium plates that do ...
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How to remove buzz from piezo speaker pickup?
I am using piezo speakers as pickup for my guitar. In one setup, for an amp, I have a 25 year old Philips powerhouse aw636 stereo, which has a mic in. The problem is that when I connect the piezo to ...
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GaN & SiC piezoelectricity problematic?
I read that galium nitride and silicon carbide are piezo materials.Does this cause some problems? I can imagine that unwanted piezoelectricity directly in the circuit path would cause some kind of ...
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Resetting 555 via Transistor (optionally driven by Touchplate/Piezo)
Right now I am using a 555 circuit to generate a 1kHz square oscillation (not displayed below). Generally the reset is pulled down, but through a button I drive a transistor to output the square ...
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Piezo speaker equivalent for circuit simulator
I am using Falstad's circuit simulator to test a design of an Op-Amp based microphone-speaker system...kind of like a megaphone, but the speaker is going to be a piezo plate. Falstad does not have a ...
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Piezo element microcontroller connection
I have a "noname" piezoelement from Aliexpress:
I'd like to control it via microcontroller. Now I use this circuit to drive the piezo element:
Microcontroller ports produce PWM signals. Everything ...
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Piezoelectric component connection circuit
I have a question about piezoelectric component and microcontroller connection circuit.
I use 7BB-20-6L0 Murata piezo.
Here is the datasheet - Link
Here is my current variant:
Is this schematic ...
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Filtering noisy buffer output
Please bear with me as this is my first time working with filters.
I am trying to scale down the voltage from my piezo to a voltage which my ADC can read (from >100V on the piezo to 0-5V on the ADC ...
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ECG signal amplification
I am developing a project for ECG detection using PVDF (Piezo Film) sensor. I have already managed to detect my heart rate but since the sensor used produces voltage corresponding to vibrations, ...
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Vibration frequency measurement with a piezo sensor
I have a linear resonant actuator like this one:
https://www.gearbest.com/other-accessories/pp_670798.html
I need to control its frequency of vibration and for that I intend to use a potentiometer ...
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Piezoelectric Force Sensor Signal
I have a piezoelectric sensor that I would like to use as a force sensor. Some rudimentary testing with it tells me that it is outputting voltages in the range of 0-120V VPP, possibly more (I haven't ...
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Sensor to check if door is locked [closed]
I’m taking a subject of entrepreneurship and we have to present an idea to put in the market. My group thought about a keychain with a little light that warns us if we locked our front door or forgot. ...
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Can I develop constant force (pressure) from piezoelectric crystal?
Can I develop constant force (pressure) from piezoelectric crystal applying constant voltage?
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High frequency Ultrasonic transducer for finer mist making
I am looking to make Mist/Fog from water using ultrasonic transducer mist maker. A typical mist making products in the market are using 1.7 MHz ultrasonic transducer to make 5 Micron size Mist/Fog. ...
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How to further dampen vibration cascading on piezo-elements?
I'm trying to build an electric xylophone. I want it to be pressure/velocity sensitive so I decided to use piezo-elements to pick up 'hits'. Below is a close-up picture of my setup.
So every bar you ...
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piezo stereo preamp
I have found several projects on piezo preamps but I cant find anything that can run 2 piezo inputs to make it stereo and uses potentiometer to control volume gain etc.
What I found is "Collin’s Lab: ...
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Create MIDI instrument with 52 inputs and low delay [closed]
I'm building an electric xylophone, or at least trying to, which is velocity sensitive. I approach this by using piezo-sensors. The sampling of the notes will be done on a raspberry pi. So far, I have ...
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Troubleshooting noisy FET buffer for contact mic
I'm trying to follow the schematic on this page to create a preamp/impedance matcher for a balanced piezo contact mic. I've reproduced the schematic below.
I've built it on a breadboard and I'm ...
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Single supply OPA445?
So basically I'm trying to make a circuit for a piezo-electric actuator. I only have access to a single supply at +70V for my op amp, an OPA445AP. Vin varies between 0 and +3V. I've looked at the help ...
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How to switch on/off RFID using piezo sensor?
I need to connect a piezo sensor to a RFID tag such that when someone presses on the piezo, the voltage generated activates the tag. A nearby RFID reader continuously looks for the tag. The tag ...
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Calculating the magnitude of impedance
I am working on a project to model the electrical characteristics of a piezoelectric (PZT) and would like to get a sanity check to make sure I am going about it in a way that makes sense.
So I am ...
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What exactly is the purpose of the resistors in this diagram? [closed]
I don't claim to know a huge amount about electronics, so I just want to understand the basic flow of electricity in this schematic better. I imagine the purpose of the 1M ohm resistors are to draw ...
