Gareth Branwyn is a freelance writer and the former Editorial Director of Maker Media. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books on technology, DIY, and geek culture. He is currently a contributor to Boing Boing, Wink Books, and Wink Fun. And he has a new best-of writing collection and “lazy man’s memoir,” called Borg Like Me.
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.
6 thoughts on “Short Circuit #2: Frequency multiplication with tank circuits”
noah andersonsays:
That’s very cool and stunningly clearly explained – thank you!
japroachsays:
good stuff
Jonathan Footesays:
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.
Gareth Branwyn is a freelance writer and the former Editorial Director of Maker Media. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books on technology, DIY, and geek culture. He is currently a contributor to Boing Boing, Wink Books, and Wink Fun. And he has a new best-of writing collection and “lazy man’s memoir,” called Borg Like Me.
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That’s very cool and stunningly clearly explained – thank you!
good stuff
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.