| Richard Erlacher 02/08/10 13:10 Read: 163 times Denver, Co USA |
#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. RE |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| 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 |



