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Electronics => Projects, Designs, and Technical Stuff => Topic started by: TheCrazyRichard on April 05, 2013, 01:09:39 pm
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Hi!
I've been bored in the school again, and then I suddenly got another crazy idea.
What about combining a switchmode PSU as a first stage, with a linear PSU behind it?
Since the switchmode ones are high efficiency, but also contain a lot of ripple, why not add a linear regulator there to get rid of the ripple there?
So it might still be something like a mid-efficiency PSU with a smooth output, right?
What do you think about it?
I might actually implement it to my PSU when I get to building it...
--Richard
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it has already been done here fr example
a switchmode psu standard followed by a regulator module.
http://www.tuxgraphics.org/electronics/201005/bench-power-supply-v3.shtml (http://www.tuxgraphics.org/electronics/201005/bench-power-supply-v3.shtml)
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There is one caveat to that solution though.
The open loop bandwidth of the linear regulator must be ludicrously high in order for the regulator to have a fighting chance of suppressing the ripple-noise.
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You can make the smps follow a couple of volts above the ldo. That Is a tracking prereregulator. Watch daves video
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You can make the smps follow a couple of volts above the ldo. That Is a tracking prereregulator. Watch daves video
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If noise is important, You could do a "gatling gun" type of smps where each noise pulse becomes smaller and a higher frequency.
Why not use some active noise cancellation?
For a lot of RFI filters you see a transformer where one winding is in the positive side and one winding is negative side to cancel noise.
That transformer should also be a time delay.
so add some anti-noise to the output of that transformer.
So what is good and bad points of idea?
C