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| Zero999:
--- Quote from: magic on September 12, 2019, 08:43:10 am ---Depends. It may only make it worse if the problem happens when ground bounces around due to Y capacitors while some high impedance signal nodes bounce at a lower amplitude due to capacitive coupling to ambient. Electrostatic shields should be referenced to the ground of the circuit they protect. --- End quote --- I don't see how a shield can make it worse. As long as the shield is connected to the supply rails, via a low impedance AC path and surrounds the low level signals, it will only improve things. The shield will form a Faraday cage, which can bounce up and down due to the Y capacitors, but as long as the circuit in side is referenced to it, there won't be any interference. |
| Someone:
--- Quote from: magic on September 12, 2019, 08:43:10 am --- --- Quote from: ejeffrey on September 11, 2019, 04:25:22 pm ---A medical rated power supply will have less ground leakage so will likely be considerably better than standard industrial/telecom power supplies even when floating. --- End quote --- These are treacherous. They still have some capacitive injection of primary-side junk, their outputs are not grounded due to regulations, they look like they might be grounded because they have three-prong plugs, but that's actually because they are shielded to reduce EMI. --- End quote --- Not all medical standard mains supplies are floating, you can get them with the DC output connected through to the input earth. |
| TimNJ:
Hi James, This power supply has a series impedance in the earth return path as you described above (Class II with functional earth): https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/globtek-inc/TR9CI1500CCPIMR6B/1939-1768-ND/9837833 |
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