Short Circuit #2: Frequency multiplication with tank circuits

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Here’s day two of Jeri Ellsworth’s, aka Circuit Girl, video lab journal, Short Circuit. In this one, she discusses frequency multiplication with tank circuits.


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6 thoughts on “Short Circuit #2: Frequency multiplication with tank circuits

  1. noah anderson says:

    That’s very cool and stunningly clearly explained – thank you!

  2. japroach says:

    good stuff

  3. Jonathan Foote says:

    Sorry, That’s not frequency multiplication, that’s just filtering out harmonics from a pulse train. The tank circuit acts like a 800 kHz bandpass filter. True frequency multiplication will allow *any* output frequency, not just the LC resonant frequency, and typically requires nonlinearity.

    The right way to look at this is in the frequency domain.

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