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Re: A three Phase question please
John Woodgate
In message <1387825178.9799.YahooMailNeo@...>, dated Mon, 23 Dec 2013, kim nielsen <dkkiboni@...> writes:
Maybe a resistor across etch diode, but I think it is not necessary, the leakage current is big enough to balance the voltage across the diodes. Have used about 100,000 diode without resistor and not a single diode failed because of the voltage across them. The VR37 is big and expensive and sometimes hard to come by.4 mm x 9 mm, about USD0.25 50-off. If you open op a TV20 (20KV) diode there is also not a resistor across each diodeThose are checked for balanced reverse voltage distribution. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. With best wishes. See www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Nondum ex silvis sumus John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK |
Re: A three Phase question please
Hi John Maybe a resistor across etch diode, but I think it is not necessary, the
leakage current is big enough to balance the voltage across the diodes. Have
used about 100,000 diode without resistor and not a single diode failed because
of the voltage across them. The VR37 is big and expensive and sometimes hard to
come by. If you open op a TV20 (20KV) diode there is also not a resistor across each
diode. ? ? Med venlig hilsen, Kinds regards
Kim Borg Nielsen On Monday, December 23, 2013 7:38 PM, John Woodgate wrote:
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Dec 2013, Michael Peter writes: >While following this thread, it just dawned on me that I do not know >how to measure 3 phase power.? Any suggestions how to do this in real >life and ofcourse in LTspice as well. >? In real life, use two wattmeters. Call the phases A, B and C. One meter has its current coil in phase A and its voltage coil between A and C. The other meter has its current coil in phase B and its voltage coil between B and C. The power is the sum of the two meter readings. This works for a balanced or unbalanced load, star/wye or delta connected. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. With best wishes. See www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Nondum ex silvis sumus John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK |
Re: A three Phase question please
John Woodgate
In message <DUB110-W214CEC96F96D0814B332F3ACC10@...>, dated Mon, 23
Dec 2013, Michael Peter <michael883575@...> writes: While following this thread, it just dawned on me that I do not knowIn real life, use two wattmeters. Call the phases A, B and C. One meter has its current coil in phase A and its voltage coil between A and C. The other meter has its current coil in phase B and its voltage coil between B and C. The power is the sum of the two meter readings. This works for a balanced or unbalanced load, star/wye or delta connected. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. With best wishes. See www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Nondum ex silvis sumus John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK |
Re: A three Phase question please
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýMeasuring 3-Phase power is exactly the same as measuring single-phase power, except you have to do it 3 times.In practice you need a measurement set-up that monitors the vectorial product of voltage and current. It could be an electrodynamic dual-coil meter, or a digital wattmeter. In LTspice, use the standard method thrice. Le 23/12/2013 18:36, Michael Peter a
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Re: A three Phase question please
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýWhile following this thread, it just dawned on me that I do not know how to measure 3 phase power.? Any suggestions how to do this in real life and ofcourse in LTspice as well. ? Michael ? To: LTspice@... From: jmw@... Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 15:41:16 +0000 Subject: Re: [LTspice] RE: A three Phase question please ?
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dated Sun, 22 Dec 2013, kim nielsen writes: >Use UF4007(SF4007), they are 1A, 1000V, 75nS Trr and cheap. 1n4148 have >only 75volt reveres voltage. > >10pcs. in series gives 10KV. I would use 11 to have som margen. Even so, I would put 1 meg resistors **rated for 1000 V at least** across each diode. Vishay VR37 type, for example. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. With best wishes. See www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Nondum ex silvis sumus John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK |
Re: CIC unstable output
Hello John I wish the wealth of information that can be found over the Internet could let me know about the exact nature of the problem LTspice shows for this particular schematic. > It might be helpful if you describe in detail the discrete > digital structure that you are trying to simulate. Thinking of sparing you all of possible errors from my English I uploaded CIC.asc in Temp. It may still be there, I haven't checked.? > I have always found it challenging to translate discrete digital > filters back into the analog for simulation. > Perhaps the problem is that the analog nature of the delay lines > allows small errors to grow due to the very high gain So then part of the suspicion is true, LTspice is dedicated to analog simulation, despite all the efforts. It still is strange that using Filter with a 4 times interpolator, N=256 FIR will show no such odditites as CIC does, no matter how long the simulation. But it's also true that the CIC uses integrators while the FIR uses no feedback. > Maybe buffering the output with quantizing b-source would help > (one that can only take on valid digital values) I'll try using int() to force some would-be quantizing, but later. For now a break. Thank you all for the advises and a Merry Christmas. Vlad |
Re: CIC unstable output
This is from my phone, so it may be abreviated and spelled poorly. Perhaps the problem is that the analog nature of the delay lines allows small errors to grow due to the very high gain. Maybe buffering the output with quantizing b-source would help (one that can only take on valid digital values).
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Re: JFET Model
That was easy thanks. Chris? On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 3:56 PM, <helmutsennewald@...> wrote:
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Re: CIC unstable output
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I have always found it challenging to translate discrete digital filters back into the analog for simulation. It is very easy to make errors that are not obvious but which completely mess things up. I've not taken a look at your project but, even a few stages will make it more difficult than you would like. It MIGHT be helpful if you describe in detail the discrete digital structure that you are trying to simulate. Jim Wagner Oregon Research Electronics On Dec 22, 2013, at 10:59 AM, <imbvlad@...> <imbvlad@...> wrote:
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Re: CIC unstable output
John Woodgate
In message <l97cr5+1isqo3s@...>, dated Sun, 22 Dec 2013, imbvlad@... writes:
Thank you for the directions, but I wouldn't have started something if I didn't have at least one clue about it :-)I realise that, if you are referring to my comments about the results of a Google search. It is certainly unfortunate if you can learn nothing additional from the documents there that is of value for your present project. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. With best wishes. See www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Nondum ex silvis sumus John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK |
Re: CIC unstable output
Thank you for the directions, but I wouldn't have started something if I didn't have at least one clue about it :-) It's true that I can't say I'm an "expert", but I'll manage, somehow. The problem, though, isn't knowing what a CIC does, but what LTspice shows up when using it, otherwise I wouldn't have asked for help here. Vlad |
Re: CIC unstable output
John Woodgate
In message <l97732+1panslk@...>, dated Sun, 22 Dec 2013, imbvlad@... writes:
There is a lot of information disclosed by a Google search for CIC filter, but I don't claim to understand it. Even so, it looks like it might help.I really don't know what a CIC filter is and how it is supposed towork. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. With best wishes. See www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Nondum ex silvis sumus John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK |
Re: CIC unstable output
> I really don't know what a CIC filter is and how it is supposed to work. If you say so. Being no expert either (by far), here's what I know, in short: they're a cheaper approach to interpolators/decimators because they're multiplier-free (not that it would matter in LTspice) and can have arbitrary rates. The lower chain are the integrators, as you said: y[n]=y[n-1]+x[n] (hence the inverting tline fed to the inverting input of the G-source). Due to the high gain at DC they're the most unstable and a CIC of N sections will have a gain at the output (M*R)**N (the inverse of the current input gain), where R is the rate and M the number of samples for the comb section (y[n]=x[n]-x[n-M]). This is also one of the major downsides, the bit growth. Inverting the chain order and using downsampler results in a decimator. Now, as far as LTspice is concerned, considering two adjacent samples as a step input, and since a tline will not interpret this as a digital signal (well, nothing, really) it means that the sharp shape will not be preserved, anymore. Because of this, I would expect the signal to be distorted after 8 stages of integrators, but only around the step change. As you noted, even if you have to zoom in quite a bit to realize that, the waveshape is no longer a "straight line" and, because we're talking about integrators, the smallest error will gain large proportions at the end. So, let's say that this is the normal behaviour, that passing a (sampled) signal through several tline stages will distort the signal up until the samples, themselves, no more "straight line". But then how come this problem doesn't arise in the FIR filter? If you try Files/Filter/Filter/Filter.* and set it to a 256 length FIR and similar settings as the CIC, you'll notice no such problem. True, you may need to tinker with tr and td, but even the last sample in the simulation will be "normal", LTspice-wise. As mentioned, I also tried adding S&H between stages. After all, the delay is a S&H in itself. At first, between 6th and 7th as there seemed to be where the errors gained proportions (later ending up with one between every stage). Like this, the output goes well sampled for a while, but then starts going exponentially upwards or downwards because of the "non-linearity" of the samples, the wobbly waveform, they sample with errors and all. I thought this is because of the upsampler. The SW has Ron=1 and Roff=1u, meaning that where there should be zero-samples there are, in fact, non-zero ones, a million times lower, yes, but non-zero. So, I replaced the SW with R17 and added a B-source with V(0.3) [upsampler clock] times V(108) [the output of the 8th comb]. Since the clock has 0 and 1V values only, the zero-samples were as they should be. Not only that didn't solve the problem, but it only brought another one as the B-source itself needed tripdv/tripdt settings on its own, which meant an extra complication because tinkering with those two settings implies first running the simulation, then modifying, then re-running, ... In the end, the only ones (hard-)influencing the result are the clocks made with voltage/current sources. For this reason, the S&H, as it is now, has a sine source as its clock, to avoid sharp transitions and let only V(0.3), the rate clock, to affect the sampling. The analog input signal, V1, also influences this; try changing it, for example, to: pulse 0 3 0 {0.77/f} {0.23/f} 0 {1/f} and see the what happens.? If you have a bit of time and are willing, see for yourself with this little experiment: set up one integrator just like those in the CIC, with Td=1, and use this input: V1 0 a pulse 0 1 1 1m 1m {ton} 2 Run this for 10 sec, no timestep imposed, with ton=0.5 and then ton=1, see the difference. Also relevant is using the source as simply: pulse 0 1 1 1m , same simulation. It can be clearly seen that, as long as there are no "synced" sharp transitions from the source, the output of the integrator simply relaxes itself greatly. If it would have been only this, fine by me, a tight timestep should solve the problem, but the tline seems to count that relaxed timestep as its input. Adding a simple inverter, separated, with output connected to input and td=1 (oscillator) won't solve the problem, its tripdt only influences the A-device. Adding a B-source (between ground and x) with delay(V(a),1) will influence the general result if tripdv/tripdt are specified, but that's not a solution because, like above, those two settings imply running and re-running the simulation when this is meant to be a subcircuit. At this point, I honestly don't know whether this should be the answer to expect or not, to expect those spikes to happen or not. I'm also out of ideas at this point. Vlad |
Re: A three Phase question please
John Woodgate
In message <1387726122.76180.YahooMailNeo@...>, dated Sun, 22 Dec 2013, kim nielsen <dkkiboni@...> writes:
Use UF4007(SF4007), they are 1A, 1000V, 75nS Trr and cheap. 1n4148 have only 75volt reveres voltage.Even so, I would put 1 meg resistors **rated for 1000 V at least** across each diode. Vishay VR37 type, for example. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. With best wishes. See www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Nondum ex silvis sumus John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK |
Re: A three Phase question please
Use UF4007(SF4007), they are 1A, 1000V, 75nS Trr and cheap. 1n4148 have only 75volt reveres voltage. 10pcs. in series gives 10KV. I would use 11 to have som margen. The biggest problem with this kinds of circuits are corona, and do you have any expiriences about corona? or else dont mess around with this kind of curcuit. It is highly dangerus. ? Med venlig hilsen, Kinds regards
Kim Borg Nielsen On Saturday, December 21, 2013 9:40 PM, "smalcolmbrown@..." wrote:
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Yes it is a FuG 200 Radar set. I like reverse engineering things to see how they work. I understand PPI its the other approaches that I find interesting. a stack of 1N4148's shudder a large stack then. Ta for the Idea. I think I got as far as 5?Schottky ?power devices and gave up. Damn Yahoo still is not letting me have POP3 access to my email and the interface still doesn't like html emails :( It has been a week and a half since this happened and they still have not replied to my complaint :( Merry Yule to all
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Re: Sub ckt
---In LTspice@..., <zardos49@...> wrote:
Thanks Helmut ! I had the files scattered and it could not find them.
Sent from my BlackBerry? by Boost Mobile Don't scatter files! Don't put any user-file (LIB, model, subckt) in LTspice programfolder. Put all files in a private folder below .../user/... Helmut told it every time, but new users never seems to read the "ReadMe" PS: reading the FAQ (Help/HelpTopics - when you start the program) willanswer most of your question. hws |
Re: CIC unstable output
Vlad asked: "At least does anyone know why the samples lose their constant-time values?" I think what you're asking is, why does the waveshape appear to lose its staircase appearance. ?Well it still is a staircase, but there is so much going on once the signal passes through the lower (integrator) stages, that you need to zoom in to see it. ?I think that is the expected result (i.e., nothing is wrong).
Andy |