Questions tagged [ripple]
Small unwanted residual periodic variation of a direct current (dc) output.
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OBD2 Pwr+Gnd causes poor GPS reception in device plugged into it, looking for causes & solutions
Myself and a few others have built a custom device (PCB & components) which is designed to run while plugged into an OBD2 connector in a vehicle and capture GPS location data and transmit it via ...
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Persistent ripple at the buck converter output
I developed a half-bridge buck converter, I did all the steps, from the converter calculations, such as accommodating the copper in the appropriate ferrite core, wire gauge diameter, etc., my project ...
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Proof of ripple voltage of capacitor filter?
From Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory by Robert L. Boylestad:
To get an equation for ripple voltage, the book wrote, $$\frac{V_{r(p-p)}}{T_1}=\frac{V_m}{\frac{T}{4}}$$
How did they come up with ...
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TPS61088RHL high ripple noise on normal operation
I have been working with one project which require 12 V power supply with at least 1.5 A current. I used TI Webench power designer tool to create simple 5-10 V input and 12 V 2 A output design. Since ...
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NCP11187 - SMPS Design Issues
I have been working on a SMPS design using the NCP11187. It should output 24V DC nominal with a maximum ripple of no more than 100mV Pk-PK and be able to output up to 50 Watts. I have generally ...
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Preventing spikes in inductor current (probably) caused by lab power supply
As part of a university project I'm trying to produce a current through an inductor (610uH), that'll eventually be used as a solenoid. I'm producing this using a PWM voltage produced by a TI GaN ...
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Input capacitance estimation for a buck converter
To estimate minimum input capacitance required for a buck converter to help with power stability & noise suppression, I came across below equation by TI.
https://www.ti.com/lit/an/slyt670/slyt670....
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Voltage transients in stepper driver
I am having considerable amplitude of voltage transients in my ~60V stepper driver design. I referenced High-Voltage Stepper Reference Design Using DRV8711 document for building the circuit albeit ...
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Inductor magnetic field collapses during switching?
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I'm running into some problems with my Buck converter design. During the switching period the inductors magnetic field seems to collapse, which generates some large voltage peaks. That'...
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Switching power supply has high ripple voltage no matter how many capacitors are added
I'm designing a board that uses a Texas Instruments TLV62569DBVR (datasheet here) to convert 5V input from a USB power supply to 3.3 volts to be used to power an ESP32-WROOM-32D-N4. I am having lots ...
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LC Filter Creates Ripple Voltage in Buck Converter
I'm currently designing a synchronous buck converter and trying to simulate it in LTSpice.
I know the purpose of L1 and C4 is to act as a filter to smooth out the output, since it would be rapidly ...
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Buck converter has low frequency ripple with high amplitude
I "designed" a simple buck converter, which is basically a clone of the 5V reference design in the TPS6293x datasheet. The converter is outputting the correct voltage on average, but has ...
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Can you power 2 voltage rails simultaneously using a buck-boost converter?
I am designing a custom PCB and want to power 2 rails: a 3.3V and 5V rail, with a single 250mAh LiPo battery (3.7V) and need the 5V rail to have as stable a voltage as possible.
I understand that a ...
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Choosing filter capacitor and inductor for AC to DC rectifier
I am designing a three phase AC to DC rectifier. This DC output will be connected to a 6 IGBT bridge. That IGBT will be controlled using SVPWM technique to control a PMSM motor. What factors do I need ...
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How much charging ripple voltage is allowed while charging a LiFePO4 battery?
We are designing a buck controller to charge a LiFePO4 battery (4 series 9 parallel cells, each of 3.2 V).
Hence, we would like to charge the battery pack with 13.90 V but the buck output has got a ...
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Ripple Noise Using Capture CIS and PSpice
I am trying to measure the ripple output noise of a regulator using simulation on Orcad CIS and PSpice. The output voltage and current are correct however the transient time response is not showing ...
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How to use measured values to obtain an experimental ripple factor for a full wave bridge rectifier with no filter
Hello this is my first post. This is my thought process:
I can use the following equations to calculate the theoretical ripple factor for a full wave rectifier:
Through simplifying, it can be ...
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What result does digital multimeter show when measuring filtered AC V? Is it Vavg or Vrms of the ripple voltage? What's the formula to calculate? [closed]
Can somebody tell me what result does multimeter show when measuring filtered AC V? Is it V avg or V rms of the voltage ripple? And what's the formulas to calculate this?
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low frequency ripple current RMS amps and temperature rise in MLCC
Manufacturers only specify this metric of 0.1, 0.5 and 1MHz.
Is there any way to calculate / estimate the temperature rise in these capacitors for much lower frequencies, in the Hz range, based on ...
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Flyback converter design using UC3843
I am designing a offline power supply which will 24 V as output with 2.5 A. I found UC3843 as better option. I used TI we bench tool to design my power supply. This is the schematic I got from it. The ...
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Understanding ripple in oscilloscope
I have a linear (non-switched) power supply that states in the specs a ripple of 10 mV p-p
Measuring it with the oscilloscope, as you can see in the image it measures Vpp = 30mV.
The oscilloscope is ...
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Removing peaks (noise) in the output of Switch Mode Power Supply
simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab
I have a 220/24V SMPS, which I use to power 2 buck convertors in chain. First one 24-12V, and the second one 12-5V. With this setup I ...
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DC bus capacitance design for SPWM inverter
I am working on a 5kW grid-connected inverter where I need to find the DC bus capacitance value. I understand that the capacitor serves 2 purposes: 1) to provide a low impedance path for the high ...
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Large Ripple on Synchronous Boost Converter
I was working on the synchronous boost converter simulation with the following schematic, with SUP70101EL (P-channel MOSFET) and IRFB4310Z (N-channel MOSFET). I don't understand why the output voltage ...
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ZVS circuit to generate high DC voltage
I'm trying to design a high DC voltage generator to create a voltage differential between the upper and the lower part of a cloud chamber I'm building. I'm trying to use a ZVS circuit to amplify an ...
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Bridge rectifier circuit with a step-up transformer
I have been experimenting with a full-wave bridge rectifier in LTspice.
I am trying to step up 120 V AC/60 Hz to 1 kV DC for a load of around 2 kΩ. The step-up transformer has a ratio of 25:9. The ...
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Does the position of capacitors create ripple voltage?
I'm designing a multi-sensor board controlled by an ESP32-Pico-D4. I did tests with version 3 being able to programm it, but I decided to make it smaller by removing the USB chip (just leave pins for ...
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How to remove 200 mV ripple from my power supply? [closed]
I am using a step-down-converter to get a variable supply output in the range of 2-4 V from a 5 V input voltage from an adapter.
The problem I am facing is that I get a 200 mV ripple which looks like ...
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Selecting a capacitor / ripple current / ESR
I have a small control with a linear power supply, bridge rectifier, and smoothing capacitor. It turns on a motor for just 10 seconds or less and in the worst case only every 3 minutes, but maybe much ...
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Ripple rejection of capacitance multiplier when compared to linear regulators
There are some posts and discussions how a circuit popularly called a “capacitance multiplier” could reduce low frequency ripple noise (at 50/60 Hz or 100/120 Hz) and could perform better than common (...
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