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  1. You could also try this clamp idea. It will require 1 extra opamp. This will prevent your offset value from going higher than your LDR value and will then prevent the opamp going negative. As long as the offset is lower than the LDR value it will have no effect on the circuit. Just a idea. If you want a visual indication when the offset is adjusted below the LDR value add the extra LED and resistor.

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  2. Your scope will give 2 X the reading because it is not terminated into 50 Ohm

    Your scope will also read lower because the 210 has a 60MHz BW meaning that the reading at 60 MHz will be up to 3dB lower. A scope of >= 100Mhz will give a more accurate reading.


  3. vivek,
    we do not have a project on this site for such a large consumption. Here is a website that fully documents a 2KVA that has a modified sine wave:
    http://www.technology.niagarac.on.ca/people/mcsele/i2k.htm

    This project uses the microcontroller as I had described above, but don't worry if you have never programmed a PIC. Everything is on this website, including the code for the micro. I think you can even contact the author with questions.

    MP



    "This inverter is of a traditional ferroresonant design using large step-up transformer"

    This type of transformer to obtain a sine output is hardly used anymore because of high cost, bulk and is also not very efficient.

    http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_2/chpt_9/6.html

    "Ferroresonance" is a phenomenon associated with the behavior of iron cores while operating near a point of magnetic saturation (where the core is so strongly magnetized that further increases in winding current results in little or no increase in magnetic flux).

    Normally, core saturation in a transformer results in distortion of the sinewave shape, and the ferroresonant transformer is no exception. To combat this side effect, ferroresonant transformers have an auxiliary secondary winding paralleled with one or more capacitors, forming a resonant circuit tuned to the power supply frequency. This "tank circuit" serves as a filter to reject harmonics created by the core saturation, and provides the added benefit of storing energy in the form of AC oscillations, which is available for sustaining output winding voltage for brief periods of input voltage loss (milliseconds' worth of time, but certainly better than nothing).


    Unfortunately, these devices have equally noteworthy disadvantages: they waste a lot of energy (due to hysteresis losses in the saturated core), generating significant heat in the process, and are intolerant of frequency variations, which means they don't work very well when powered by small engine-driven generators having poor speed regulation. Voltages produced in the resonant winding/capacitor circuit tend to be very high, necessitating expensive capacitors and presenting the service technician with very dangerous working voltages. Some applications, though, may prioritize the ferroresonant transformer's advantages over its disadvantages. Semiconductor circuits exist to "condition" AC power as an alternative to ferroresonant devices, but none can compete with this transformer in terms of sheer simplicity.




    "In general, ferroresonant UPSs that use transformers are often larger in size and produce heat which can impact sensitive components in a computer and batteries in the UPS".

    http://www.natpow.com/power101/ferro%20ups.htm


  4. I think the block diagram is a bit misleading. You get a better idea from the logic diagram which shows a combination of inverters used to obtain Q and Q_bar

    Also the way they drawn it may be a way of indicating that the FF has buffered outputs. Will be difficult to tell without the details of the internals.

  5. I am building a FM stereo transmitter from a kit and need to measure my modulation or also called deviation when on air. Where can I find a circuit to do this? The only thing I found was here http://www.edmdesign.com/mic.htm where they use a small radio. Any idea what the "additional electronics" would be and how they do it?

    If I use the VU meters on a FM receiver, how can I calibrate it at 75kHz modulation?

  6. Yes that might be the reason.

    I was searching for prices on the 2n3866 and 2n4427 and found Mouser have them at $1.60 and $2.00. Unable to find any sale of the Bfs22a. The only ones are the component brokers that wants you to ask them for a quote. I tried them before and boy they want you to spend minimum $200 or more. I hate that!

    Even better from JDR! $1.00 http://www.jdr.com/interact/item.asp?itemno=2N3866

    Also found some 2n3866A.  What will be the difference  from a 2n3866?

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