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EEE 54 DP1 Documentation - Mendoza - Soriano
EEE 54 DP1 Documentation - Mendoza - Soriano
29 September 2016
B. Clamper
I.
INTRODUCTION
II. MATERIALS
2 22F Capacitors
2 47nF Capacitors
1 1M Resistor
1 3.3k Resistor
3 1n4148 Diodes
III. SPECIFICATIONS
f c=
1
=1 kHz
2 RC
V. EXPERIMENT
First set-up the voltage doubler. It is easy to see if the
doubler is working. The output signal should be double the
magnitude of the input. For the experiment, a 2.5 V, 5 kHz
square wave is fed through the input terminals of the voltage
doubler. The output signal should be a constant line as it
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rides the peaks of the square wave.
Once the voltage doubler is working, set-up the clamper
circuit. Connect the output of the voltage doubler to the
input of the clamper and test if the signal has gained a DC
offset of Vpp/2 = 2.5 V. During the experiment, a DC bias
was need to be connected to the diode of the clamper to
bring-up the output voltage. To check that the output
voltage is correct, use the formula Vout = Vin + (Vdc+Vbias).
Finally, if the two previous circuits are working, connect
them to the HPF (High Pass Filter). The HPF will act as a
DC block and take away the DC offset introduced by the
clamper circuit from the output signal. To check it the
circuit works, test different frequencies. At lower
frequencies the signal should start to distort as the HPF does
its job.
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The complete schematic of the working circuit is shown
below:
VI. CONCLUSIONS
The design project was relatively easy to visualize but to
accomplish it, knowledge on how diodes and filter work is a
must. There must also be prior knowledge on how the
graphs would look like else you will be confused in the
oscilloscope is displaying the right signal.