<div id="RTEContent">Hi Seb<br> <br> A good shottky might be the 1N5817<br> <br> I have done input overdrive with 100K series resistor. Two notes...<br> I don't intentionally overdrive at that level... and in your linear case<br> (I assume you have a feebback resistor) making the input much higher<br> will make the feeback value much higher as well...<br> <br> why not a low impedance voltage divider to reduce the opamp swing first<br> to below the 15V limit ? Knock the gain down first, then go through the<br> 22K input resistor. <br> <br> 28V p-pk sounds like the opamp is +/-15V supply. Then you go to a 0-15V<br> on the CMOS ???<br> <br> Are you AC coupling into the CMOS ??<br> <br> H^) harry<br><br><b><i>Seb Francis <seb@burnit.co.uk></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Hi Harry,<br><br>Can you give an example part no. of a suitable schottky clamp diode!
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<br>Would a 1N4148 do or would it be better to use something with a lower <br>voltage drop? I guess I need them between input and VDD and between VSS <br>and input (i.e. in parrallel with the internal protection diodes).<br><br>What would you consider a safe value of input resistor to drop the <br>voltage from 28V ptp to 17V ptp (I guess the max current flowing in <br>either protection diode would be (28-17)/2 / R, so about 0.5mA <br>currently). Unfortunatly they don't spec these things on the datasheet :-(<br><br>Seb<br><br><br>Harry Bissell Jr wrote:<br><br>> with a 10K resistor in the inout you might be over the edge. I'd be<br>> concerned. You might want to use shottky clamp diodes instead<br>> of allowinng the CMOS input diodes to clip.<br>><br>> The input clipping 'may' be part of your sound. Who knows ?<br>> I'd expewriment a little more with it.<br>><br>> H^) harry<br>><br>> */Seb Francis <seb @burnit.co.uk="">/* wrote:<br>><br>>!
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Well, I've been getting some really nice results with using between 1<br>> and 3 stages of a 4069UB for distortion. The MOSFET clipping has a<br>> really warm sound to it. (Incidently the 4049 really wasn't so good -<br>> the clipping was way too asymmetrical.) Anyway, more on this later ..<br>> I'll publish the final circuit in due course.<br>><br>> What I'm concerned about in my circuit design is whether it is<br>> safe to<br>> drive the 4069 beyond its absolute maximum input voltage. The quoted<br>> absolute maximum range is -0.5V to VDD+0.5V (VDD=15 in my circuit).<br>><br>> The input current is limited by a 10K resistor (with a DC blocking<br>> cap<br>> in series before it), so although the opamp driving it can kick<br>> out up<br>> to 28V ptp, the voltage at the 4069 input gets clipped to approx 17V<br>> ptp. This is a bit beyond the quoted absolute maximum, but I g!
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as<br>> long as the current through the internal protection diodes is<br>> limited by<br>> the 10K resistor then this is ok?? Is this a safe assumption?<br>><br>> Seb<br>><br>><br>><br><br></seb></blockquote><br></div>