<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I’ll try to give a 10 km overview… Conducted emission is just one aspect of EMC (electro-magnetic compatibility). Broadly speaking you have:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- emission: anything unwanted that comes out of your device. This might affect other equipment around it. TV sets, pacemakers, airplanes...</div><div class="">- immunity: anything that comes into your device and affects its operation in a negative way. Crashing cpu’s, noise on the audio output, etc.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Both of these can be subdivided (again broadly!) in:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- conducted: this comes in or goes out via the cabling. An SMPS might throw noise out on the AC line, and that can affect other equipment. Or you get noise through the AC line into your device, and that manifests itself as e.g. noise on the audio output or CV.</div><div class="">- radiated: this comes in or goes out of your device via the air. That CPU clock line on your board is a nice antenna which transmits e.g. 25 MHz plus all its harmonics. Or the other way around: a cell phone nearby might be received by your board, the signal is rectified and you hear those familiar sounds in your audio path.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Conducted and radiated noise are also related: noise coming out of a device via the power supply lines, can end up being radiated emission because the power supply lines are basically antenna’s.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So these are four different things to check and take care of. Some can be solved by shielding (radiated), others by filtering (conducted). The one I mentioned below was a specific case of the Mean Well power supply throwing stuff back out on the AC line. A common mode filter (a common mode choke coil) was enough to solve this problem. I often use this series: <a href="https://www.we-online.com/catalog/en/WE-LF" class="">https://www.we-online.com/catalog/en/WE-LF</a>. Sometimes additional ferrite is needed in the cable: <a href="https://www.we-online.com/catalog/en/pbs/emc_components/ferrites_for_cable_assembly" class="">https://www.we-online.com/catalog/en/pbs/emc_components/ferrites_for_cable_assembly</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But that whole system required mechanical shielding as well, to cope with radiated aspects.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Disclaimer: I am by no means an expert in this subject, but I do have experience with our products having to comply with EMC regulations. So I often work with specialists and test houses on this subject.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ben</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 17 Feb 2021, at 15:43, ColinMuirDorward <<a href="mailto:colindorward@gmail.com" class="">colindorward@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Conductive shielding is something I've never implemented, great idea to fab PCB for the job, I'll give this a go. I thought a conductive shield would need to be grounded, how can it do anything if it's just a floating piece of metal? Well I have seen people with tinfoil hats in the movies.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I looked up "conducted EMC" and got a little lost in all the other EMC acronyms. What does it stand for here?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Also a great idea to use these as replacement supplies for dying gear. I actually have an MPX1 and a DX7S, so maybe I'll need a few extras one day! In more dire need of repair is my JX-10 supply, which is suffering from a (mechanically) buzzing transformer.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Is anyone regulating SMPS down for example from 15v to 12v? My understanding is that HF noise will pass right through the lm317, etc, and yet I see it is very popular to use SMPS brick/wallwart connecting to a eurorack case which then uses linear regulators to derive 12v. I was just looking at the behringer euro supply, and I think it actually uses two SMPSUs: one in the power brick, and then another in the module itself. I'm sure it works, but is that a little goofy?<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks folks!<br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 5:25 AM Ben Stuyts <<a href="mailto:ben@stuyts.nl" class="">ben@stuyts.nl</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I meant to say: they offer a good trade-off between performance, reliability and *price*<br class="">
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> We use quite a few MW psu’s in my company because they offer a good trade-off between performance and reliability. The one issue though during design that always comes up is conducted EMC. If you have any noise on the DC (e.g. from a CPU clock) it will go straight out to the AC side. We usually (now habitually…) have to add some form of common-mode filter on the AC side.<br class="">
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