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Recent content by Dan Mills

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    Analog changeover switch : 2oz copper mountable

    Fairchild have some "bus switches" that may be available in something compatible with 2Oz copper. Widely used by radio hams building switching mixers, they are up in that 'possible, but fiddly' to hand solder region, so I would have thought they should be possible for this. Regards, Dan.
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    Compare two high performance preamplifiers for HF

    The other gotcha with the norton circuit is very poor reverse isolation, may or may not be a problem depending on the application. Regards, Dan.
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    Scoping output ripple voltage of a 3MHz SMPS using probe PCB adapter

    0.02dB is an utter irrelevance. Do make sure you are terminating into 50 ohms at the scope, and do use a ferrite common mode choke. Obviously, if you also source terminate then you will be seeing the action 6dB below reality if you don't compensate for it, but I am not sure I would bother...
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    Scoping output ripple voltage of a 3MHz SMPS using probe PCB adapter

    Except that 3Mhz fundamental may have meaningful energy up where it matters. Personally I would just buy a DC block already fitted with appropriate connectors on fleabay, it should only cost a tenner and (If you get a little selective about manufacturers) will be good for way more then you...
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    Scoping output ripple voltage of a 3MHz SMPS using probe PCB adapter

    I suspect that much of the noise being seen is common mode current in the cable screen, try winding a dozen turns of the cope lead thru a FT43 torroid or such. TBH, by 3MHz at those sorts of amplitudes, I would be looking at doing a 50 ohm system (Still with common mode suppression), there is...
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    [SOLVED] what is the use of band rejection antennas if filters will be always there ?!

    A lot of the art of radio design is in rejecting as much of what you don't need as early as possible. Consider that a wideband antenna feeding a LNA will expose that amplifier to many signal that you are not interested in, possibly causing the amplifier to become non linear and causing...
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    Small vs larger SMT ceramic capacitors and internal inductance?

    Don't use 1206 if ESL matters to you..... Smaller packages really are better. Now at only 3MHz, if the ESL of a ceramic cap matters you are probably doing something very wrong (Or working on a really butch power amplifier), seriously, series L will help more then all this sweating about things...
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    Getting 65A off a PCB to another PCB

    Could be worse, it could mention that scariest of phrases "Space Qualified".... Regards, Dan.
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    Getting 65A off a PCB to another PCB

    Depends, there are some very heavy current round contacts that use a beryllium copper helical spring sleeve as part of the socket assembly, from maybe 60 up to a 1,000A or so for traction power and the like. Not cheap, but nothing at that current level is. These are a variation commonly used...
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    Getting 65A off a PCB to another PCB

    Re: Blade connector with 12A per contact at 85degC? Lots of ambiguity there, datasheet says one thing, derating curve says something totally different. I would go with the datasheet values, which would make this a gross overload, better to err on the safe side. Even if the derating curve is...
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    Small vs larger SMT ceramic capacitors and internal inductance?

    My RF experience has tended to be that firstly physically smaller is better, and secondly that with good dielectrics the layout makes at least as much difference as the cap. 0402 is better then 0603 and both are better then 1206 dielectrics being equal (Big values will not help you here, the...
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    Why Analog continuous time filters are important ?

    They do not alias so are kind of important in front of ADCs (And are a vital part of correctly reconstructing DAC outputs).... Up in the RF they are more then somewhat important for building radio systems, everything from cell phones to TVs needs both RF and IF filters and of course...
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    Power bus on luxury yacht

    Depends a lot on the vessel. Usually there is a LV DC bus (24V or so) used for nav lights, radios, radars and navigation instruments, plus sometimes things like cabin and emergency lighting. This may or may not be shared with the engine starting arrangements and may or may not be also used for...
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    Need a help about Xenon flash tube

    3kW average in blinder mode is not unreasonable, but it is more like 1/4 cycle pulses (You cannot ignite the lamp at zero crossing!) and 100Hz not 50Hz..... These tubes are of the order of 30cm long, and I would not be at all surprised if martin were using Quartz in that application to get a...
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    Need a help about Xenon flash tube

    That and the problems caused by triplen harmonics which also sum in the neutral (and are usually a much bigger problem, due in part to the widespread use of phase controlled dimming). None the less, the Dataflash and martin Atomic strobes are a common fixture at most large music stages, and...

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