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Check out this groovy circuit!

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eric-hertzEric Hertz 01/12/2016 at 08:114 Comments

Check out this groovy circuit I came up with!

0->3.3V PWM (20-80% duty cycle) 
                V+
                ^
                |
                \
             R1 /
                \
                |
                +--|>|----.
                |         |
                |       __|__|
                |      | / \   3.3V
                |       /___\  Zener
                |         |
0->3.3V >---||--+--|<|----+----->  >----.
                |         |             |
                \        ===            \ Amp
             R2 /         |             / Input
                \         V             \ ~30k
                |        GND            |
                V                       V
               GND                     GND

Discussions

jlbrian7 wrote 01/12/2016 at 12:48 point

Those circuit diagrams are great!

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Yann Guidon / YGDES wrote 01/12/2016 at 08:47 point

What is it ? it looks like a modified charge pump... please explain :-)

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Eric Hertz wrote 01/12/2016 at 09:22 point

I think I'll wait and see others' hypotheses (and whether I can get it working as I intended) before giving it away ;)

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Eric Hertz wrote 01/12/2016 at 09:23 point

by which I mean... it *is* working as I intended, as best I can tell, but bumping up the capacitor value defeated that... so I guess I don't understand it as well as I thought... Or maybe it was due to the output-resistance of my 0->3.3V circuit... hmmm....

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