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In an R-2R ladder based on standard 5% resistors, which resistor would be best to add a trim pot to adjust/tune the output for each bit? R or 2R?
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What is your output voltage range? 0 to 10V?I will be using 20V in for one ladder and 8V in for another ladder
The relays are driven by a rotary switch and the outputs feed to a unity gain buffer opamp.
Much confused. Don't try to explain now. Moving on.But a computer cannot control a rotary switch.
Really? Based on your last seven posts I thought it would take at least another five or six to pry loose from you ... forget it.Same here. Only took 5 posts .
Really? Based on your last seven posts I thought it would take at least another five or six to pry loose from you ... forget it.
I have noticed that. One reason why I'm not usually the first responder.Context. The experience difference between a 20-year designer and a 50-year designer breeds a healthy respect for context. I'm a big fan of answering the question that was asked, but over 50% of the time it turns out that that isn't the real question.
They were mechanical. Either relay or rotary switch.What are the switches driving the ladder inputs? Electronic or mechanical?
How accurate and stable? I hope enough.How solid/stable are the 8 V and 20 V sources? Accuracy? Drift? Noise? Output impedance over temperature?
Should be, indoor lab use only.Resistance/impedance? Constant with voltage and/or temperature?
opamps, so high impedance.What is the input impedance of whatever the ladders drive? Does the ladder impedance have to be kept low to swamp out local noise sources?
VERY VERY Slowly. manually input setting.How fast are the inputs changing?
I was taught/told years ago to select resistor power based on 5x the typical design power rating. Under the premise, the higher the difference in power rating (actual vs design) the more temperature stable the value will be. Obviously there is a trade off of stability vs size. You don't see 10W resistors on every board.Are the resistors thru-hole or SMT? What is the power rating?
Not unless it effects the how/why of the resistor value(s) selected.For the same resistor values in both ladders, there is a 6.25x difference in power dissipation. Is this important?
Wall powered, lots of juice available.What is the power budget? Is this battery operated? If so, what are the expected circuit current and operating time?
My point there was that I needed 1.0V increments, only 1.0V increments, and not some binary DAC represesentation close to a 1V increment.In post #7 you said "I need very specific 1.00v increments." That implies at least 8-bit accuracy so you can tell the difference between 0.99, 1.00, and 1.01. If you mean to extend this to differentiate between 19.00 and 19.01, that is 12 bit accuracy, requiring 0.02% tolerance resistors.
I did not feel that was relevant. Why does it matter what I'm doing with them? I have found I have to keep the post short and isolated to the point on hand. Otherwise the thread devolves into design by committee (see above) or I never get an answer to the question at hand (example present). I am looking for the methodology on selecting the value of R best suited for an R-2R ladder that will be used to breakdown a 20V input and an 8V input. Furthermore, each ladder was to be opamp buffered due to the difference in source and, possible, output impedances.AND - what is with the two voltages and combining the outputs of the two ladders? Approximately zero percent of that is clear? Does this mean that the impedances of the two ladders interact? Does one ladder have to be at least 10 times the impedance of the other to minimize loading?
5 / 4095 = 0.00122 VA 12 bit 0-5V DAC amplified 4x resulted in some values off by more than 50mV