[HBQRP] Who's an op amp expert?
Dale Botkin
dale at botkin.org
Tue Feb 18 16:26:25 EST 2014
Trying to troubleshoot what should be a dead simple op amp circuit and I
could use a hand. This is why I normally stick to digital circuits. :)
The amp is an MCP6002, supply voltage is 3.25V. Schematic attached.
I've got a voltage divider on the + input - a couple of 1K Ohm resistors
(R9 & R10, not 10K as shown in the diagram), so the + input is sitting
at about 1.6V (half of Vcc). Input is AC coupled through a capacitor
(C7 in the diagram), then a series resistor R8 to the - input. Another
resistor R12 from the - input to the output. No output load at the
moment. Simple inverting amp, right?
So. The input resistor is 300K, the feedback resistor is 510K. I would
expect to see a gain of around, say, 1.7, right? But I'm not. I'm
getting about 0.15. A 1.06V pk-pk signal in gives me about 160mV pk-pk
out. Nothing I have tried makes any positive change.
Clues? I know I must be missing something here.
Dale - N0XAS
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