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- From: dvsg0223@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (David Salamon)
- Subject: Re: Isolated Connector for IEEE Bus?
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 17:14:32 GMT
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- fang@phy.duke.edu (Fang Zhong) writes:
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- > I work on small signals of less than micro volts. I use a computer
- >to control my experiment and take data via IEEE bus. One of the equipments
- >in my setup is a digial ratio transformer made my Eaton Advanced Electronics.
- >This equipment was designed so poorly that a ten-times larger noise was
- >added to my circuit if I added it to my IEEE bus.
- > I would like to find a way to add the digital ratiotran to the IEEE
- >while the noise is isolated only to the ratiotran.
-
- > Will an optical isolation work in my case?
-
- Yes, but it is a pain to implement all those optoisolators.
-
- Before you try something like that, note that your problems are most likely
- due to a ground loop. The IEEE bus has two ground lines, called "shield"
- and "digital ground". They shouldn't be hooked together anywhere, and your
- instrument should not be using "shield" ground as its true ground. Digital
- ground should be the only ground that is connected between machines. The
- shield should be left unconnected unless you are sure all instruments have
- their cases hooked to the power line ground, in which case it is safe to hook
- shield to the instrument cases.
-
- Good luck!
-
- David
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- David Salamon Physics Graduate Student (Slave)
- d-salamon@uiuc.edu University of Illinois
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