I'm baffled and confused.
A Mind Block
HELP ME PLEASE.
Here's my dilemma:
1) I have a subassembly with an on-PCB single 12VDC power supply. It generates a unipolar 1KHz, 2Vrms, ac-coupled output sine wave referenced to its circuit ground.
2) I have to amplify that 2V sine wave to approximately 6Vrms.
3) I have another subassembly with an on-PCB dual +12 /-12VDC power supply, ac-coupled input to an op-amp x3 inverting amplifier which could output a 6Vrms bipolar ac-coupled signal referenced to its own circuit ground.
4) Both subassemblies must share the same common circuit ground.
Problem:
The unipolar 2V output from the first subassembly is processed and output by the second subassembly but only as an amplified UNIPOLAR signal rather than a BIPOLAR signal. (Unipolar swings from +12V to Ground. Bipolar needs to swing from approximately +9V to -9V, about 18Vp-p, above and below Ground.)
What am I missing here? Thanks in advance for suggestions or solutions.