<div dir="ltr">On top of what Tom has mentioned, the input impedance of the inverting stage is depended on one of those two resistors. Sometimes a high input impedance is needed and thus you are forced to either use larger resistors or more opamps, depending on the case.<div></div><div>Furthermore, the bias input current of the opamp is converted into a voltage by passing through that input resistor- a higher resistor leads to a proportionately higher offset. In FET input opamps the bias currents are some pA and can usually be ignored, but BJT opamps will be prone to that and need some additional care. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 4:07 PM Tom Wiltshire <<a href="mailto:tom@electricdruid.net">tom@electricdruid.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">At the simplest level, it’s a trade-off between current and noise. Lower value resistors generate less noise, but use more current (and provide lower input impedance) and higher value resistors do the reverse. So you tend to see “compromise” values around 10K-100K. 1Meg is getting “big” and 1K or less is getting “small”.<div><br></div><div>Years ago I had the same question and since the internet didn’t exist yet, I did some experiments on my breadboard with a 741 and discovered that 1M upwards was noticeably noisier, but that anything between a few K and a few hundred K didn’t really seem to make much odds.<br><div><br></div><div>Tom</div><div><br><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 30 Dec 2019, at 13:17, bbob <<a href="mailto:fluxmonk@gmail.com" target="_blank">fluxmonk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr">(please excuse the noobiness).... <div><br></div><div>in a basic inverting op-amp circuit, where the input and feedback resistors are equal, the gain will be -1... but what are the pros/cons that determine the choice resistor value? i commonly see/have used 1k, 10k, 47k, 100k in synth circuits, but what design considerations drive those choices of values? my immediate application is basic output buffers on a LFO, and 1k seems to be working fine, but it got me to thinking (uh oh).</div><div><br></div><div>thx, b</div></div>
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