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Hi,
I built a digitizer with an adc0831. I thought I had read a datasheet saying that the max. on the input was 5 volts but read later that its the supply voltage (6.3) plus 0.3 volts. I have a 1k resistor between the signal source and the input pin. Fearing to smoke it i put in a 4.7v zener before the resistor. With the zener the pin is getting 4.25 volts. Without the zener its 5.7v. The source is was a 741 which proved too noisy so I replaced them with TL071s. 1) What is actually the maximum voltage limit on the adc input? 2) Is the voltage without the zener likely to rise above the adc input limit? 3) Please confirm for me (or not) that the resistor and zener are really making up a voltage divider? Thanks, tango2 |
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Tango2 wrote: Hi, I built a digitizer with an adc0831. I thought I had read a datasheet saying that the max. on the input was 5 volts but read later that its the supply voltage (6.3) plus 0.3 volts. I have a 1k resistor between the signal source and the input pin. Fearing to smoke it i put in a 4.7v zener before the resistor. With the zener the pin is getting 4.25 volts. Without the zener its 5.7v. The source is was a 741 which proved too noisy so I replaced them with TL071s. 1) What is actually the maximum voltage limit on the adc input? 2) Is the voltage without the zener likely to rise above the adc input limit? 3) Please confirm for me (or not) that the resistor and zener are really making up a voltage divider? Thanks, tango2 If the Opamp and ADC are powered from the same power supply then there is no problem and you don't need the zener. If the power supply on the opamp is separate from the power supply on the ADC then there is a concern and some protection is needed Dan |
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"Dan H" wrote in message oups.com... Tango2 wrote: Hi, I built a digitizer with an adc0831. I thought I had read a datasheet saying that the max. on the input was 5 volts but read later that its the supply voltage (6.3) plus 0.3 volts. I have a 1k resistor between the signal source and the input pin. Fearing to smoke it i put in a 4.7v zener before the resistor. With the zener the pin is getting 4.25 volts. Without the zener its 5.7v. The source is was a 741 which proved too noisy so I replaced them with TL071s. 1) What is actually the maximum voltage limit on the adc input? 2) Is the voltage without the zener likely to rise above the adc input limit? 3) Please confirm for me (or not) that the resistor and zener are really making up a voltage divider? Thanks, tango2 If the Opamp and ADC are powered from the same power supply then there is no problem and you don't need the zener. If the power supply on the opamp is separate from the power supply on the ADC then there is a concern and some protection is needed Dan .. the reason being that the op amp can't output a voltage greater than the supply. Based on the given clues, I would say that the maximum converter input is the applied supply voltage plus 0.3 volts, but thats the fry-point max, not the useful max necessarily. elvis |
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