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Title: New Texas Instruments negative power generator!
Post by: StephenGiles on June 23, 2005, 01:38:18 PM
http://focus.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/ptn78060a.pdf

Looks interesting!
Stephen
Title: New Texas Instruments negative power generator!
Post by: Ben N on June 23, 2005, 02:01:53 PM
Neat.  A bit much to put in a pedal, but there seems to be plenty of current for a pedalboard negative supply, and variable Vo might be useful to compensate for the effect of all the filtering it seems to need  :) .

Thanks
Ben
Title: New Texas Instruments negative power generator!
Post by: StephenGiles on June 23, 2005, 03:53:45 PM
Of course you can put it a pedal, it measures no more than 4 NJM4558s long by 2 wide.
Stephen
Title: New Texas Instruments negative power generator!
Post by: The Tone God on June 23, 2005, 04:33:39 PM
Did you look at the price ?

BTW, there a many different negative voltage converters availible. This one has nothing special.

Andrew
Title: New Texas Instruments negative power generator!
Post by: Ben N on June 23, 2005, 04:38:00 PM
Stephen:
I didn't mean just the chip by itself, but with the filtering it apparently needs in any ripple-sensitive environment.
Ben
Title: New Texas Instruments negative power generator!
Post by: StephenGiles on June 26, 2005, 02:39:02 PM
Here are some pictures of the beast alongside a dual opamp - ssm2135.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v517/uncle_boko/PTN78060_top.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v517/uncle_boko/PTN78060_bottom.jpg)
There are quite a few minature components squeezed on that double sided board!!
Stephen
Title: New Texas Instruments negative power generator!
Post by: toneman on June 26, 2005, 06:26:56 PM
it's got a coil on the pcb.
this will generate more EMF that the switchedcap types.
(EMF--ElectroMagneticField)
the switchedcap units(7660) are charge-pump types, use no
inductors, &, 4 the most part, have no EMF.
shields up Scotte
stayshielded
tone
Title: New Texas Instruments negative power generator!
Post by: Paul Perry (Frostwave) on June 26, 2005, 07:58:15 PM
Without testing we'll never know, but I don't think the coil is necessarily going to be a problem. It's small, it's presumeably efficient, and the frequency is bound to be WAY past audio. A switched cap with a poorly thought out grounding scheme could be way worse.