| ??? 04/15/05 18:35 Read: times |
#91685 - Grounding Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Prahlad J. Purohit said:
1. You need to connect your digital circuitary ground to your encousre. It should be connected at the same point where your Physical Earth connects the enclosure. This point becomes the star ground point of your circuit. Do I need to come back down from the circuit board to this ground point or can I route from the negative side of the bridge rectifier and then up to the board? Story: Once upon a time we had problems with the LCD blanking out. Everything else continued to work. It turned out that the bezel of the LCD is hooked to digital ground. Once the anodizing wore off from the bezel or underside of the cabinet top and a connection was made the LCD blanked out. Most of the LCD's have either a trace that can be cut or a tab that can be bent so that the bezel is no longer connected to ground. Question: Is that the same thing? Prahlad J. Purohit said:
2. You connect the Physical Earth to the mounting screw of supply transformer. It apears there is paint layer under the transformer mounting Do you think this paint layer will allow electrical connection of enclosure and Physical Earth. It does have connection. I have checked it before. However, it is probably not a perfect connection. Prahlad J. Purohit said:
* Your board doesnt contain a solid ground plane, A good ground plane helps a lot with noise problems. * If I have figured it right you run a 110V AC track nearly at the middle of your board. Its not a good practice to run such tracks with digital circuitary on either sides. Yes that is correct. I'm working on a new lay-out and I will make use of these points. I am able to increase the size of my board if needed, but there are a few things I need to leave in certain places to maintain backward compatibility. (Big issue!) I also am a little confused on how to make such a solid ground plane. I have read more than a few post and other articles on the web. I understand the concept, I'm just not sure how to implement with current layout software (Traxmaker). I have also emailed Kai to ask his help, but have had no response. Jon |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| What do you think could happen if... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| The 10k from RST to GND | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Random resets.. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Dogma. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Oh yea ? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Hmm | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| brown outs | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Obscure | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| RC Reset circuits. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Something more to it ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| ad wars between Maxim and Microchip | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Cutting teeth... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| recommend brown out detectors | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Which depends on for what.. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| built-in reset | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Re: Built in brown out? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Better than I did.... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Thanks, Michael. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Why | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Other stuff ? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| many reasons | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Thats not correct. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| speak with forked tongue | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I agree | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| re: dogma | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| ESD events and EMI | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Re: Random resets. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Lets not reject the obvious! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| no R | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| RC-circuits are bullshit!! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| RC-circuits are bullshit!! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Reset Capacitor | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| You missed the question! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Why guessing? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| RE:Why Guessing | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Timing | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Update | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| not necessarily the reset | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Other derivatives | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| if no cap | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| No Cap | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| not just a cap, but the right cap | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Which cap? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| depends | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Yes Cap | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| directly | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| RE:Directly | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| yes | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Absolutely ! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Update - ESD Problem? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| some ways | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| some ways - more detail please | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| details | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Car induction coil | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| ESD Problem | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Physical Separation | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Few Ideas | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Re: Few Ideas | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Check your external ground | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Ya. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| now that you are willing | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| RE:Now that you are willing | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| alot easier when you know what your look | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Not as bad as initially thought. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| ground loop | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| RE: Ground Loop | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| sound | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| RE: Ground Loop | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| It is a loop AND | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| It's a loop and a flop | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| no shield can help you there | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Kind of machine | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| so your testbench setup should be OK | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Failures | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| in that case | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Materials | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| could still be ground | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Noise resistance | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| you will not find that | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| What can be found? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| tough these days | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Glue ? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| No Glue | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| lesse some pictures. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| LOL | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Nope | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Let the fun begin! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Confession | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Confession | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Ah. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Not that bad | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| HAr to see but | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Wiring & Filter | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Maybe a little better pictures here | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| nice | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Oops - try again | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Uh Oh | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Yep | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Don't ground both ends of shield | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| bonding | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| RE: Bonding | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Useless.... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Better Pix yet? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Re: Better Pics Yet? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| DETAILS... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Nothing hiding here! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| !!!!! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I don't think so. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| !! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Grounding. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Grounding | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Prahlads points | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Clarification | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Clarification | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Update | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| au contraire | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| The answer may be on the horizon | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| not the voltage, but the change | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Have a look see | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I do not know how good | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| 7805 Starving | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| it will go HOT | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Heatsink | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
or it's possible | 01/01/70 00:00 |