Questions tagged [smoothing-capacitor]
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How can I smooth the output of a DC motor used as a generator?
I have a small DC motor acting as a generator, spinning at 500RPM. From it, I get 1V with ½V ripple, which a 1000uF electrolytic capacitor smooths nicely.
I may wish to drive the motor in reverse, ...
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Function of capacitor on the output of a bridge rectifier
What is the function of capacitor C in this diagram?
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How Can Non-Parasitic Capacitance Be Excessive When Smoothing Voltage?
I mostly do VHDL/Verilog, and I'm laying out a PCB for a small FPGA project.
The FPGA will operate in a noisy environment. I want to make sure the board has more than enough capacitors to provide the ...
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Why does the capacitor discharge after the peak of AC voltage (smoothing)?
Why does the capacitor discharge (used as a battery to provide voltage to the resistor) after the peak of the alternating voltage (after the voltage reaches the highest value and goes on to decrease ...
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AC to DC rectifier and smoothing
I'm trying to understand how you get a DC signal from an AC signal being rectified. It produces a ripple waveform and the signal gets "smoothed" out using a smoothing capacitor. Is the ...
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Using RC Low Pass Filter for PWM signal Smoothing [closed]
I have some questions regarding the working of RC Low pass filters, specifically for smoothing out high frequency PWM signals (application: making a buck converter for driving an LED (expected current ...
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LED blinker draws high current during switching, how to prevent current spikes
I have the circuit below:
Now focus your attention on TP4056 charging and protection module because it has a DW01A battery protection circuit in it which detects over current at 3A. Also focus your ...
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Behaviour of parallel RC circuit attached to 'rectified' DC and AC voltage source
I have been having some trouble understanding the functioning of a capacitor and a resister attached in parallel to a rectifier to smooth out the time-variant dc output. From what I have read, a ...
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PWM average voltage smoothing
I built an ESC circuit. First, I tested it with a drive frequency of 350 Hz; the speed was at about 20 RPS at a 70% duty cycle.
But when I changed the drive frequency to 20 kHz, I noticed that the ...
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Schematic notes: Place capacitor as "close" to pins: Is this a necessary note? Is it a significant point?
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I am building a ATMega4809 board that allows the board to be programmed using the Arduino IDE.
While examining the following schematic I noticed that where the caps are placed the author ...
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Why does a 2nd capacitor and coil smooth this signal?
I came, more or less accidentally, across this image here:
I understand all circuits and their resulting signal output, except for the last/lowest one. Shouldn't it look like this with one capacitor ...
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Capacitor across motor vs capacitor across motor and transistor
I am currently building my own control board for a high power brushed DC motor (24V 16A). I am using an Arduino to provide a PWM signal to an IRLB8743 MOSFET. The reason I am trying to build my own is ...
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Which capacitors to use with voltage regulator IC such as 7805?
Many of the tutorials suggest to use a large smoothing capacitor (tens and even hundreds of uF) with a full wave rectifier but the datasheets of the voltage regulators and some tutorials suggest only ...
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Which is better for full bridge rectifier circuit? MLCC or Electrolytic? [duplicate]
If I place 100uF multilayer ceramic capacitors at the output of a full-bridge rectifier will there be any problem? Or I need to place electrolytic capacitors? What difference do they make (except size)...
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diode required for smoothing capacitor
I never quite understood the finer details of why a diode is required for turning capacitors into "smoothing" capacitors instead of just low pass filters. The simulations I have done in ...
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