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Re: Wave Multiplier

2005-03-09 by sasami@hotkey.net.au

Hi,

Serge used 4558 from memory, and yes, the waveforms are all "soft". Earler
experiments I did were harder edged. There are other quad op-amps that are
even faster than the TL074, though I forget the number off hand.

Ken

>Hi Ken,
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>Just a quick question regarding the Wavemultiplier. I was
>breadboarding it up last night, and I found that the pulse out
>quickly turns to a triangle wave as the frequency is increased.
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>The 'scope reveals that this is due to slew rate limiting of the
>LM324 as it tries to crash from rail to rail at only 0.5V/uS. I'm
>just curious; is this by design to mimic what the original Serge unit
>did?
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>I intend to put a TL074 in for IC4 which has a better slew rate of
>13V/uS and sharpen up those edges. I'll also attenuate the output as
>+/-15V is a bit hot :-0
>
>Fun Circuit, but I must admit I haven't listened to it yet. Lots of
>pretty pictures on the 'scope tho'.
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>All the best
>
>Andy
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