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Richard Erlacher
02/08/10 13:10
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Denver, Co
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#172979 - Which one?
Responding to: Oliver Sedlacek's previous message
While I agree that a "rail splitter" could well be useful, the fact that the ones "officially" designated as rail splitters and which which I'm familiar are not sufficiently flexible. OTOH, a power op-amp to generate the pseudo-GND would allow the negative rail to be set a 5 volts below GND and, likewise, the remaining rails to be generated from a zener-based or even voltage divider op-amp as well. While the original query set the total current at ~300 mA or so, I'd guess most of that current would flow into the 3V3 supply.

The TI TLE-whatever rail splitters do exactly that, i.e. they split the input supply into positive and negative rails. If they'd split 12 into 7 and -5 rather than 6 and 6, that might work out better, allowing for some headroom in the positive regulators. With clever op-amp selection, I suspect a really well-regulated, low-noise linear supply would result.

If you, Oliver, know of a splitter that would provide both the low-impedance GND and one useable rail, and it's possible the O/P could live with +/- 6 Volts rather than 5, perhaps that could be made to work.

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List of 30 messages in thread
TopicAuthorDate
voltage regulator design      Mahmood Elnasser      02/07/10 12:54      
   Implement an "Inverting Buck-Boost"...      Kai Klaas      02/07/10 13:34      
      ultra low noise      Mahmood Elnasser      02/07/10 14:20      
         You're right ...      Richard Erlacher      02/07/10 15:35      
   reghardless of the urban legends and ...      Erik Malund      02/07/10 16:19      
   You need a rail splitter      Oliver Sedlacek      02/08/10 07:19      
      no, he does not      Erik Malund      02/08/10 07:40      
         When the Engine starts      Andy Neil      02/08/10 08:06      
            Engine?      Rob Klein      02/08/10 08:10      
               Ummm...      Andy Neil      02/08/10 09:04      
         That's not a given ...      Richard Erlacher      02/08/10 09:39      
         I stand by what I said      Oliver Sedlacek      02/08/10 11:38      
            Which one?      Richard Erlacher      02/08/10 13:10      
               Rail splitter      Mahmood Elnasser      02/08/10 15:29      
                  It isn't as simple as it looks.      Richard Erlacher      02/08/10 16:55      
                     it is ...      Erik Malund      02/08/10 17:18      
                        Did you even read the original spec's?      Richard Erlacher      02/09/10 00:04      
                           reverse engineering      Mahmood Elnasser      02/09/10 02:24      
                  Let me try ..      AP Charles      02/09/10 02:53      
                     Reply      Mahmood Elnasser      02/09/10 12:02      
                        Reply      AP Charles      02/09/10 23:25      
                  Like this      Oliver Sedlacek      02/09/10 06:41      
                     This should work well      Richard Erlacher      02/09/10 09:07      
                     The problem with the TLE2426 is...      Kai Klaas      02/09/10 14:30      
                        quite true, that's why the op-amp is better      Richard Erlacher      02/10/10 00:36      
                           Link....      AP Charles      02/10/10 00:37      
                              probably still too weak ...      Richard Erlacher      02/10/10 23:38      
                                 ...and instable...      Kai Klaas      02/11/10 19:13      
                        True, opamp alternative      Oliver Sedlacek      02/10/10 06:04      
                           There are several      Rob Klein      02/10/10 11:57      

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