Amp output Z

Compared to the total *resistance* in the chain of 610 ohms, -71j makes a minor contribution to the total load impedance.

Graham

He could also measure 'the other side' of the 5.6uF and back-calculate Rout to a high degree of accuracy essentially ignoring the reactive component for practical purposes.

Graham

Hey Mark, now that is exciting. Keep us updated with hardware and performance. JT has mentioned that PC Club has some good hardware. Who is your source?

Cheers, Harry

Even making the cap 100uF would reduce the term to practical insignificance ! I's certainly be tempted to do that as a quick and easy solution to any measurement issues.

Graham

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Multimeters don't see phase angle - lol !

Graham

Assuming this is the correct schematic:

+---[10R]---------+------TPA | | | [5.6µF] | | [GEN] +------TPB | | | [600R] | | +-----------------+ | | GND GND

Are you saying you injected the signal at TPB?

If the 5.6 uF capacitor *isn't* part of the amp, why don't you inject it at TPA?

I would have thought you would want the output impedance of the amp, not the output impedance of the amp+cap in series.

Reverse the procedure Harry. Set the device at Ov out, inject a known current into the output terminal, and measure the resultant voltage.

Use an ammeter if possible, otherwise use a large value resistor.

A scope would be handy..... the dual beam can show the phase shift between the injected current and the voltage across Zo, and a check for a decent sinewave across Zo verifies that Zo is linear with current, (or not).

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Tony Williams.

You can also get some idea of the value of Ro.

switch _________ +----o/o----+ | Device | | | | +--------+-[10ohms]--+--[Ammeter]--[R]-- | [Ro] | Vout to DVM/scope. |____|____| +-->

| | 0v+--------------------+-----------------<

Switch the 10 ohms in/out, adjusting Vgen to keep the current constant. Measure the difference in Vout. Simple calcs to get a rough idea of Ro (and C).

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"Tony Williams" a écrit dans le message de news: snipped-for-privacy@ledelec.demon.co.uk...

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Direct measurement is still the better way.

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Thanks,
Fred.

I see. "Hi John, I am looking for Zo not Ro. I cannot measure the open circuit output voltage because the amp is unstable with no load. This is a customers design that I have to redesign. He believes that the output Z is about 10 ohms which is easy to measure by Ro=dVo/dRL. I believe it to be 70 ohms but cannot prove it. The spec requirement is less than 25 ohms. Harry"

I assume the problem here is that you are trying to tell your customer that the output impedance *can't* be as low as 10 ohms with that capacitor in series with the output.

Not without feedback around it, or an inductor in series with the amp output.

Does he believe now?

"Fred Bartoli" wrote in message news:425cf269$0$32031$ snipped-for-privacy@news.free.fr...

Hey Fred, you have a winner. I took a 10Vrms voltage source at 400Hz and connected it thru a 1K resistor to the 600 ohm load. Call the voltage on the voltage source Va and the other side of the 1k resistor Vb then Zo=Vb/I1k = Vb*1K/(Va-Vb). Using a DVM I got

73 ohms. If I had a higher 400Hz voltage source I could have used higher than 1K and got closer to 71 ohms. A constant current source would yield great results but this is close enough. Thanks for your help. Harry

"Fred Bartoli" wrote in message news:425e31df$0$22099$ snipped-for-privacy@news.free.fr...

Hey Fred, you have a winner. I took a 10Vrms voltage source at 400Hz and connected it thru a 1K resistor to the 600 ohm load. Call the voltage on the voltage source Va and the other side of the 1k resistor Vb then Zo=Vb/I1k = Vb*1K/(Va-Vb). Using a DVM I got

73 ohms. If I had a higher 400Hz voltage source I could have used higher than 1K and got closer to 71 ohms. A constant current source would yield great results but this is close enough. Thanks for your help. Harry

Harry, I buy little bits and pieces and build up the system. I like taking air tools to the chassis to improve air flow by cutting out the stupid rear fan grills. JT likes PC club because it's down the street from his house and he doesn't have to put up with the dweebs at Frys. PC Club also has some pretty good deals. I typically buy from

Good prices and service most of the time. Their selection of pre-built computers isn't great.

We're starting to run some tests on the Opteron. The AMD Opteron has about the same performance as the AMD Athlon for simple standard

32-bit applications. Apps that try load everything in RAM, like Xilinx FPGA routing tools, run around two times faster due to memory transfer speed. The Athlon had a very broken memory controller and could only trickle data in and out of RAM (apx 5 times slower than the memory rating). I'm amazed Intel didn't fry AMD for that blunder. The Opteron SSE2 instruction set seems a bit slow, however, I need to compare this against a P4.

Mark

The coupling cap is part of the total amp, outside of the feedback loop, so we only have access to where the amp ties to the load, which is TPB. Not a typical design. Harry

I like that term "dweebs" ;-) Like a phrase my father first said back in 1956... "I knew God made a lot of stupid people, but I didn't know he put them all in one place". ;-)

I like my local PC Club because it's populated by some young (younger than my youngest child) nerds who have no problem building to my requirements.

Mark, Keep me posted... particularly in regard to comparisons to our previous benchmarks. Thanks!

...Jim Thompson

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Naw, the customer is always right, even in this business. Thanks for your interest, maybe next time I will better explain myself. Cheers, Harry

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So measuring the impedance with a 70 ohm component (Xc at 400 Hz) in series with the rest of the amp proves to give an answer in the realm of

70 ohms or greater?

Thanks for wasting our time with attention to issues that never mattered.