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<p>Jon and Charles: If you have EE degrees and I forgot, my
apologies! But Kevin is one of the guys on this list who could
write at least parts of "The Art of Electronics" while many of us,
like me, can only read, hoping some day to master the equations
hiding under the practical/intuitive presentation of that book. I
spent a summer a few years back getting my math back to where i
was when I graduated from high school. I still haven't gotten my
act together to get the math to where it was when I bombed out of
Auburn. The inconvenient detail of math exams is that they're
frequently like programming settings: "close" is a fail. :-)<br>
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Pete<br>
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<div dir="auto">Your point is excellent. By the time you have
the usable bits on the ADC side you've either got PWM
frequencies that don't happen to be available w many hobby
MPUs or enough complexity that only in an industrial setting
can you say you're saving X pennies by avoiding a DAC chip.
But the extra headache is that most (all?) DAC chips require
at least two pins for control. Anybody know of an exception?</div>
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<div>To: Jon Wolfe <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jonjwolfe@anibit.com"><jonjwolfe@anibit.com></a>, Charles A
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<div>Subject: Re: [TriEmbed] PWM to Analog 0 to 5 VDC? </div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hi Chuck,</div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Increasing switching speed
pushes the switching artifacts out to the right on a frequency
plot giving you greater frequency "space" between the DC value
you want and the switching noise you don't. This gives you
flexibility on the pole frequency/ses and room for the low
pass filter to roll off without having to use a higher-order
filter to shorten the tail. Basically, you want the highest
pole frequency with sufficient roll off using the simplest
acceptable filter topology (single pole RC (simplest), double
pole LRC, active filter). You can use a Spice simulator
(LTSpice, etc.) to do trade-offs.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Faster switching implies more
power. No free lunch.<br>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Playing devil's advocate, if
you control the head end another option is a simple D2A
converter instead of PWM? Many micros now provide D2A's. You
may also be able to digitally filter the A2D readings in the
receiver.<br>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Good luck,</div>
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<div dir="ltr"> Well I have the low pass RLC filter into
the OpAmp. I get less ripple at the higher PWM
frequencies however at those frequencies I have much
less granularity on the duty cycle. Trying to deal
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<div>The ADC input is on another board and I have no
control over it. I need to supply a stable DC
voltage to it. The current device (obsolete now)
only deviates by 10 mV or less according to its raw
ADC reads. I need to match that or the SW reading
the ADC is not satisfied. My low pass filter
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<div>Yeah an rc low pass filter is the way to
go. I've done it that way many times. The
unity gain op amp could give you a buffer on
the filter output, but I think ADCs are
usually high impedance inputs. Depending on
how fast you need the signal to change could
impact what op amp you would need to use.
You could play around in LT spice with
different frequencies and component values
to find something that works. Pete would
know better than me, but I think the
downside to higher frequency might be higher
power draw, since more of the signal is
going through the cap in the filter.</div>
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The classic way to do this is with a
low pass filter. If you google "PWM
DAC" you'll find what you need. But
the performance is going to be a
function of the PWM frequency and how
precisely you can change the duty
cycle.
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Analog 0 to 5 VDC? </div>
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<div dir="ltr">Anyone have a favorite
circuit or chip to convert a PWM
signal to a 0 to 5 VDC signal? The
resulting voltage needs to be very
stable. It feeds an ADC input.
I've looked at an RL circuit into an
OpAmp that also has a cap to ground
at the OpAmp input. The DVM says
it's stable but the ADC reading the
voltage says it's not. I'm measuring
100 mV deviations. Would like to
get to a 10 mV deviation. I've tried
changing cap values on the input as
well as adding caps on the output
side of the OpAmp. Made
improvements but still not good
enough. So looking for suggestions
please.
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">-------- Original message --------From: Kevin Schilf via TriEmbed <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org"><triembed@triembed.org></a> Date: 6/30/20 3:14 AM (GMT-05:00) To: Jon Wolfe <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jonjwolfe@anibit.com"><jonjwolfe@anibit.com></a>, Charles A <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:chanoia33@gmail.com"><chanoia33@gmail.com></a> Cc: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org">triembed@triembed.org</a> Subject: Re: [TriEmbed] PWM to Analog 0 to 5 VDC?
Hi Chuck,A few thoughts sight unseen. :-)Increasing switching speed pushes the switching artifacts out to the right on a frequency plot giving you greater frequency "space" between the DC value you want and the switching noise you don't. This gives you flexibility on the pole frequency/ses and room for the low pass filter to roll off without having to use a higher-order filter to shorten the tail. Basically, you want the highest pole frequency with sufficient roll off using the simplest acceptable filter topology (single pole RC (simplest), double pole LRC, active filter). You can use a Spice simulator (LTSpice, etc.) to do trade-offs.Faster switching implies more power. No free lunch.Playing devil's advocate, if you control the head end another option is a simple D2A converter instead of PWM? Many micros now provide D2A's. You may also be able to digitally filter the A2D readings in the receiver.Good luck,Kevin Schilf
On Tuesday, June 30, 2020, 12:08:32 AM EDT, Charles A via TriEmbed <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org"><triembed@triembed.org></a> wrote:
Well I have the low pass RLC filter into the OpAmp. I get less ripple at the higher PWM frequencies however at those frequencies I have much less granularity on the duty cycle. Trying to deal with the ripple. Guess I should look at different RLC filter values next. The ADC input is on another board and I have no control over it. I need to supply a stable DC voltage to it. The current device (obsolete now) only deviates by 10 mV or less according to its raw ADC reads. I need to match that or the SW reading the ADC is not satisfied. My low pass filter attempt so far deviates at best by 50 mV. On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 11:57 PM Jon Wolfe <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jonjwolfe@anibit.com"><jonjwolfe@anibit.com></a> wrote:
Yeah an rc low pass filter is the way to go. I've done it that way many times. The unity gain op amp could give you a buffer on the filter output, but I think ADCs are usually high impedance inputs. Depending on how fast you need the signal to change could impact what op amp you would need to use. You could play around in LT spice with different frequencies and component values to find something that works. Pete would know better than me, but I think the downside to higher frequency might be higher power draw, since more of the signal is going through the cap in the filter.
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The classic way to do this is with a low pass filter. If you google "PWM DAC" you'll find what you need. But the performance is going to be a function of the PWM frequency and how precisely you can change the duty cycle.Pete-------- Original message --------From: Charles A via TriEmbed <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org"><triembed@triembed.org></a> Date: 6/29/20 10:23 PM (GMT-05:00) To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org">triembed@triembed.org</a> Subject: [TriEmbed] PWM to Analog 0 to 5 VDC? Anyone have a favorite circuit or chip to convert a PWM signal to a 0 to 5 VDC signal? The resulting voltage needs to be very stable. It feeds an ADC input. I've looked at an RL circuit into an OpAmp that also has a cap to ground at the OpAmp input. The DVM says it's stable but the ADC reading the voltage says it's not. I'm measuring 100 mV deviations. Would like to get to a 10 mV deviation. I've tried changing cap values on the input as well as adding caps on the output side of the OpAmp. Made improvements but still not good enough. So looking for suggestions please.Thanks,Chuck
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