Questions tagged [ripple]
Small unwanted residual periodic variation of a direct current (dc) output.
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What do I and V mean in C = It/V?
I am trying to determine what value capacitor I need to put after the full wave rectifier to get a smooth voltage for charging my battery. However, I don't understand which current and voltage do the ...
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Ripple voltage for LDO
I would like to understand how to calculate the ripple voltage of an LDO.
Suppose I don't have an electrolytic capacitor.
I have a 3.3V output loaded with 50mA max with a ceramic output capacitor of ...
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LED DRIVER: Buck Converters output current ripple
I need to design a led driver of up to 1A, to drive some infrared and near infrared LEDs.
Due to the nature of my application, the intensity of the light should be as stable as possible, as ...
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Ultra low noise power supply for pre-amp
I have designed the following power supply smoothing circuit for my turn table preamp. This will be powered by a 24V 'wall-wart' type adapter.
I tried to combine a transistor/zenner diode voltage ...
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SMPS Input/Output ripple current and ripple voltage
I found a presentation regarding SMPS and found this slide.
I am not totally able to grasp the concept of the input and output ripple current.
In the above image I have the following questions :
I ...
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Pi filter design for SMPS output ripple
Given a circuit like a buck-converter like the AOZ1284PI in a circuit such as this one:
Or push-pull converters such as this one:
If one was to design at the output a low-pass PI filter with a ...
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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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Small ripple in 555 timer output when connected with a 2nd 555 timer chip
I have two 555 timer chips. The 1st is used to create a transition every .1 seconds while the 2nd is used in a monostable configuration to debounce a button. When using my DLA to look at the output ...
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Applying Ripple to a DC Source?
I have a system that is powered by a 25V Lithium ion battery pack. I need to test the system with a 1 Vpp sine applied on top of the 25V supply, so 25V +/- 0.5V ripple.
I know theoretically to get ...
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Measuring Output Ripple Voltage
Please check the below waveform of my 5V output ripple of the buck converter.
I am measuring the output ripple across the output capacitor of the converter. Why are these spikes coming while ...
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Signal to Noise Ratio and Inflection point (PSRR measurement in Oscilloscopes)
I have a 3.3V LDO for which I am supposed to do the PSRR measurement.
I have a keysight scope to do this. While looking at this PSRR YouTube tutorial from Keysight, I have a few doubts.
Around 5:...
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Ripple current at output capacitors
I was reading about the selection of output capacitors at the output of buck converters and found this Link
The accepted answer states that before I select an output capacitor, we must fix the ...
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Measuring Output Ripple Voltage Problem
This is a followup of my previous question.
Boost IC = NCV3063
Vin = 8V
Vout = 23V
Iout(max) = 250mA - (Load is a constant current circuit which is enabled at 200Hz)
Schematic
Mentioned the ...
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DC ripple stabilizer. 3rd order low pass filter. How to supply op-amps properly
I have a cheap ac-dc adapter, but it outputs DC with a ripple.
It has variable output, so it can output 12, 14, 17, and so on up to 32V.
I measured output of ac-dc adapter with an Agilent multimeter, ...
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Unexpected audio signal interference with camera recording
When watching this video I noticed that low audio frequency creates a visual ripple effect. I'd like to know how this is possible. I guess this can't be due to software smoothing of whole-camera ...
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