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About cleggsan
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All technical areas of Electronics Engineering.

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BSEE, MBA, Design, R&D, University Research.
Senior Life Member of IEEE. Life Fellow of AES.

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Broad teaching experience; work experience mostly in consumer electronics and conversion from analog to digital technologies. Pioneer in digital audio at all levels.
 
   

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Electrical Engineering - harmonic passive filters


Expert: cleggsan - 7/30/2009

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QUESTION: Dear Mrs cleggsan,
My supervisor has ordered me to shift my focus to passive filters. Because since im dealing with sufficiently high current system, i think that my sensing circuit is destroying my active filters. The current rating of the active filters  is merely 7mA. The power supply might be giving me more whenever i on and suddenly off the power supply. May be i exceed the current rating, thats why my IC filters stop working
So, i would like to know based from your experience whether  you know about any simple passive bandstop filters design that i can use to filter the harmonics?(Im working at 12V in my sensing circuit)

Thanks a lot
Diren

ANSWER: I don't remember your purpose for the filters.  Could you repeat for me the purpose of the filters and why you want to filter the line harmonics?  If you are just wanting to purify the power line waveform you may be able to use just a low-pass filter that passes the line frequency and rejects all harmonics.  You are on a 50Hz line?  Right?  Then a 50Hz low-pass filter should do the job. It can be a passive network with LC components.....   Let me know if I am not remembering your application clearly.

C




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QUESTION: Dear Mrs cleggsan,
      thanks  a lot for your constructive advice. Im doing selective harmonics control in low voltage applications.im filtering the harmonics one by one at 12V.
I would like to use passive filters or some involving op-amps to filter the harmonics. Do you know any link where i can base my design?

Yours sincerely
Diren  

Answer
http://focus.ti.com/lit/an/sloa093/sloa093.pdf

http://www.educypedia.be/electronics/electroniccalculatorsfilter.htm

This one is a good analog designer circuit for you:

http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-filter.htm


Best wishes,
C  

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