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<div dir="ltr">Thanks Neil!<br>
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Currently trying to absorb it.... :)<br>
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<p>Clone a PAiA Gnome - It'll give you a feel for how Norton op-amps
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 7:52
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moz-do-not-send="true">neil.johnson71@gmail.com</a>>
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Pete,<br>
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TI's AN-72 is a pretty good read on how Norton op-amps work
and many<br>
applications, including all the "standard" circuit blocks:<br>
<a href="https://www.ti.com/lit/pdf/snoa653" rel="noreferrer"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.ti.com/lit/pdf/snoa653</a><br>
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Neil<br>
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On Sat, 31 Oct 2020 at 00:09, Pete Hartman <<a
href="mailto:pete.hartman@gmail.com" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">pete.hartman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> 1) Is there anyone with experience or a pointer to a
description of how the Serge '73 R7 envelope generator works?
Basic googling gets me various summaries of Ken Stone's page
where "a little on how it works" is just the schematic. Got
that, don't grok it in the slightest...<br>
><br>
> ...Because I don't really "get" Norton Amplifiers. (I
have been able to repair VCS' in the past but leaned very
heavily on Tim Stinchcombe's description of how it worked). I
mean yes, I understand logically "current differencing" but in
practical uses I can't look at a topology and say "oh yes,
this is an inverter/summer with gain X" the way I can with a
standard Op Amp.<br>
><br>
> So<br>
><br>
> 2) out of all of the various circuit simulation tools
that have been discussed, which one or ones has a decent
Norton Amp simulation? Simulation is usually my go to with
circuits that don't follow "standard" often used topologies
(standard like an expo converter, or
integrator/differentiator, etc). I'm one of those who has
long leaned on the Falstad javascript simulator, and they do
NOT have a Norton Amp (at least not as far as I could tell, no
promises that I didn't miss something).<br>
><br>
><br>
> I've got one of ZThee's 73-75 panels and none of the
three EGs will cycle in the usual way. Power looks good,
components have not been 100% verified but everything I've
checked directly against the circuit appears to be correct.
Nothing is hot. Soldering is solid (I resoldered a few joints
here and there, but mostly out of an abundance of caution).
None of the usual first step troubleshooting methods has borne
fruit so I'm now into "ok I have to understand the circuit
well enough to know what each bit of it SHOULD be doing when I
have end connected to start or cycle."<br>
><br>
> Thanks!<br>
><br>
> Pete<br>
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