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Detecting minor voltage drops on a 50V source

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nina.p20

Jan 1, 1970
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I'm trying to find a schematic of an external device (maybe a
comparator ?) that may detect a minor drop from a 50V source. The
source is exactly 50V, and I need an alert (Green LED = 50V, Red LED =
less). I need to detect a 10uV or even less if possible drop for a very
high precision device.
If I'm powering a comparator or a schmitt trigger from a 9V battery,
how can I measure higher voltages? Is it possible ?
I'll be very thankful for aby help.
TIA,
Nina
 
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Dan Hollands

Jan 1, 1970
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It is easy enough to use a resistor divider to measure the higher voltage
but measuring a 10uV drop under real world conditions seems unrealistic.

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nina.p20

Jan 1, 1970
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Thanks for answering,
I'm trying to detect a voltage drop on a Telephone line when a 10MOhm
load is placed across (parallel) the line. I've measured the Voltage of

line before and after the "load", with a Fluke 197 and found it was
about 10uV. It interests me very much if using a precision high
impedance comparator may detect this drop. Any other ideas will be
welcome of course :)
TIA.
Best regards,
Nina
 
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JeffM

Jan 1, 1970
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nina.p20 multiposted to sci.electronics.basics and
sci.electronics.design
I'm trying to ...detect a minor drop from a 50V source.

Each time you post, you post INDIVIDUALLY to multiple groups.
http://groups.google.com/groups?fil...YCHToGg-vWsrD8rhlH0Pnl47z4AZhN98BFg&scoring=d

This is called Multi-posting and is frowned on.
..
..
If you would put the name of EVERY group
in which you would like your question to appear
on the To: line (the Groups: line) the FIRST time you post,
you won't have to post it a 2nd time.
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.electronics.design/post?inreplyto=f245cf87e3b0f0eb
That is called Cross-posting.

Everyone who reads the question will see ALL the responses
and will know that the proper answer
has already been given in another group
(or a bogus solution has been offered and needs correcting).
 
JeffM said:
nina.p20 multiposted to sci.electronics.basics and
sci.electronics.design

Each time you post, you post INDIVIDUALLY to multiple groups.
http://groups.google.com/groups?fil...YCHToGg-vWsrD8rhlH0Pnl47z4AZhN98BFg&scoring=d

This is called Multi-posting and is frowned on.
.
.
If you would put the name of EVERY group
in which you would like your question to appear
on the To: line (the Groups: line) the FIRST time you post,
you won't have to post it a 2nd time.
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.electronics.design/post?inreplyto=f245cf87e3b0f0eb
That is called Cross-posting.

Everyone who reads the question will see ALL the responses
and will know that the proper answer
has already been given in another group
(or a bogus solution has been offered and needs correcting).

I'm no expert on Usenetiquette but I was always under the impression
that it's cross-posting that's frowned upon, and that it's better to
post to each group individually.

As to the OP's questions, detecting a 10uV difference would be
difficult but not impossible. One of the high-precision, low-drift
opamps running from a regulated power supply, with perhaps a
temperature-controlled environment should be able to do it.

And yes, as already stated by another poster, measuring a voltage
higher than the power supply is very simple with a resistor divider.
E.g., to measure 50V, use a 10:1 divider to step it down to 5V.
 
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John Fields

Jan 1, 1970
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I'm no expert on Usenetiquette but I was always under the impression
that it's cross-posting that's frowned upon, and that it's better to
post to each group individually.
 
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Bob Masta

Jan 1, 1970
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Thanks for answering,
I'm trying to detect a voltage drop on a Telephone line when a 10MOhm
load is placed across (parallel) the line. I've measured the Voltage of

line before and after the "load", with a Fluke 197 and found it was
about 10uV. It interests me very much if using a precision high
impedance comparator may detect this drop. Any other ideas will be
welcome of course :)
TIA.
Best regards,
Nina

I wonder if maybe a "trick" could be used for this application.
The problem is that you need to measure this tiny percentage
change in a large DC value. If you try to set up a comparator
with precision resistors, you are going to have a heck of a time
with stability issues.

Here's the idea: Run the raw 50V through a super-long TC
filter. A simple RC will be OK. This will be the reference voltage.
Think of this as "zero". Now you just need to detect -10 uV, not
49.9999 V. In order for this idea to work without
a precision divider, you will need to "float" the comparator. That
will be a bit more work, but probably worth the trouble.

The other possibility is to capacitively couple to the line and
just detect the transient when the load changes. You can
amplify the heck out of that for detection, as long as you can
be assured the line is otherwise clean.

Best regards,


Bob Masta
dqatechATdaqartaDOTcom

D A Q A R T A
Data AcQuisition And Real-Time Analysis
www.daqarta.com
Home of DaqGen, the FREEWARE signal generator
 
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Wim Lewis

Jan 1, 1970
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I'm no expert on Usenetiquette but I was always under the impression
that it's cross-posting that's frowned upon, and that it's better to
post to each group individually.

There is disagreement on this topic. :)

The original intent of crossposting was to handle situations like this,
where one post (and all its replies) are on-topic for several
groups. Crossposting has gotten a bad reputation because some
people use it to incite flame wars: you can crosspost to two very
different groups, and by default peoples' responses will be crossposted
also, and especially if people don't *realize* that the thread is
in multiple groups this can produce a lot of flamage really quickly.

But, IMHO, crossposting *is* the right thing to do if your post is on
topic for two groups whose cultures aren't terribly different, like
say, three different groups in sci.electronics.*. Or comp.arch.embedded
or comp.arch.fpga, to name two other groups whose subject matter overlaps
with sci.electronics a bit. It's polite to mention in your message that
it is crossposted, though, just in case the respondent doesn't read the
headers and is writing a response that's only on topic for one of the groups.
You can also use the Followup-To: header in your original post, if it
seems appropriate.
 
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Michael Black

Jan 1, 1970
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Wim Lewis ([email protected]) writes:

But, IMHO, crossposting *is* the right thing to do if your post is on
topic for two groups whose cultures aren't terribly different, like
say, three different groups in sci.electronics.*.

But once again, if people routinely cross-post we might as well
return to 1995, when there was only sci.electronics (and
sci.electronics.repair). sci.electronics was split up because traffic
was getting heavy, and split into what seemed to be a logical set
of subsets.

There may be times when cross-posting is appropriate. But much of
the time, it's simply someone too lazy to figure out the most appropriate
place. Or too impatient to see if the first newsgroup gets much of a
response (which also may mean laziness, because they may not have taken
the time to read the newsgroups they post to for a while before posting,
so they have no real understanding of whether the post is appropriate).

Just because a post is on topic to various newsgroups does not mean
that cross-posting is the solution.

Michael
 
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John Fields

Jan 1, 1970
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Wim Lewis ([email protected]) writes:



But once again, if people routinely cross-post we might as well
return to 1995, when there was only sci.electronics (and
sci.electronics.repair). sci.electronics was split up because traffic
was getting heavy, and split into what seemed to be a logical set
of subsets.

There may be times when cross-posting is appropriate. But much of
the time, it's simply someone too lazy to figure out the most appropriate
place. Or too impatient to see if the first newsgroup gets much of a
response (which also may mean laziness, because they may not have taken
the time to read the newsgroups they post to for a while before posting,
so they have no real understanding of whether the post is appropriate).

Just because a post is on topic to various newsgroups does not mean
that cross-posting is the solution.

---
LOL, that's the _perfect_ reason to cross-post!

Why do otherwise? If I post to several groups separately with a
query which is on-topic to all of them, say: "Please, I need a
schematic and the source code for a BASIC code-practice oscillator
which I can run through my home entertainment system using a PIC and
X-10, but I don't know how to design something like that." followed
by the the inevitable "TIA", then I'll have to harvest my replies by
schlepping from group to group, and everyone who replies to my query
will have to do the same to make sure that they're not repeating
what someone else has posted and to keep track of the thread.

That's ridiculous.

It would be vastly simpler for me and everyone else if I just
cross-posted. It's not like there's a problem with bandwidth, and
even it there was, that's the kind of thing that drives the
technology forward. Usenet isn't supposed to dictate terms; it's
our servant, and as long as we shelter it, feed it, and clothe it,
it needs to do do what we tell it to.
 
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Jon Danniken

Jan 1, 1970
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I'm no expert on Usenetiquette but I was always under the impression
that it's cross-posting that's frowned upon, and that it's better to
post to each group individually.

No. When you crosspost *one* message to *a few* appropriate groups, a
modern newsreader will notice this and mark the posting "read" across all
crossposted groups. This means that if you have chosen not to display
viewed messages, you only have to view the message (and the replies) once.

When you multipost, on the other hand, the same message (and all the
replies) is still there in *every* group you multiposted into, even after
you have already read the article in another group. This is obviously a
very unefficient and annoying way to read usenet, especially if you read
groups with similar interests..

Pretty much only problem with crossposting is when it crosses the boundaries
of the groups, i.e., the incessant political prattling that goes on in
strictly non-political groups, and also spamming, but these are not so much
problems with crossposting so much as they are problems of basic respect (or
lack thereof) of others in usenet.

Jon
 
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