[time-nuts] Line Frequency
M. Simon
msimon6808 at yahoo.com
Sun Feb 9 23:11:48 UTC 2014
Hal,
The resistor H bridge with a capacitor in between sounds like a good idea. Yes - I'm starting with a wall wart. About 12 VAC. Maybe a couple of back to back diodes (zeners?) across the capacitor to make sure the voltage stays in the input range of the op amp/comparator. I like the LT1122 for speed. It is not too pricey. But there is always the ubiquitous LM111 family. I do get the ECL biasing trick you pointed out.
Chris,
Experimenting
is good. Except that to do a valid test I'd have to run the experiments
in parallel. I'm not just using this for triac triggering. I want to
take measurements in real time. i.e. a PC running an FFT will not get me
what I want.
I may ultimately have to create a test set that generates 60.000 Hz and injects a noise signal ( +/- .1V pulses at 100 KHz say) that can be turned off. The 60 Hz need not be extremely accurate. Just stable.
My counter does time triggering so I can do averaging if necessary without the counter swallowing pulses.
Simon
Engineering is the art of making what you want from what you can get at a profit.
On Sunday, February 9, 2014 8:38 PM, Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:
>msimon6808 at yahoo.com said:
>> Does any one have a circuit (tested - operational) for monitoring line
>> frequency? I'd like something that checks zero crossing so that it is
>> relatively insensitive to line voltage variations.
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>I'm assuming you are starting with an AC wall wart and 2 resistors to divide
>the voltage down to something within range.
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>The easy to understand way is to use 2 more resistors to bias your input pin
>at the switching threshold and a cap to connect the middle of both pairs.
>The circuit would look like a H with 4 resistors on the vertical bars of the
>H and a cap on the horizontal bar. Top left of H connected to AC in, top
>right to +V, bottom left and bottom right to ground, and center right to
>input pin.
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>You can do it with 3 resistors. Replace the lower of the 2 resistor setup
>with a pair, one to ground and the other to +V. Adjust the size of those
>resistors so the parallel resistance is the same as the one you are replacing
>and the middle voltage is the switching point. Mumble. There is a word for
>this that I can't remember. It's used for things like terminating ECL input
>signals.
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>If you are going in to a RS-232 port, you can probably get a useful +V from
>one of the modem control signals. I forget the polarity. You may have to
>hack your software to set it to the right polarity.
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