Re: Low distortion sinewave oscillator without big capacitor.

On Mon, 7 Apr 2025 22:46:13 -0400, "Edward Rawde"
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On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 23:55:11 -0400, "Edward Rawde"
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On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 16:29:27 -0400, "Edward Rawde"
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On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 14:25:29 -0400, "Edward Rawde"
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On 4/04/2025 11:33 am, JM wrote:

On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 19:25:33 -0400, "Edward Rawde"
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On Sun, 30 Mar 2025 14:54:56 -0400, "Edward Rawde"
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Not long ago JM posted a 1KHz sinewave oscillator with very low distortion.
It used a 470uF non polarized capacitor which in practice would probably be made from two 1000uF capacitors.
There's nothing wrong with that but I wanted to see whether I could make a working circuit without needing such a large
capacitor.

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Here's an almost fully practical circuit except for the current sources and sinks.
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I reversed the polarity of the control feedback and applied it to the
inverting input of the first oscilllator stage,  removed some
redundant capacitors, and added some filtering to the gain control
signal.  Also altered some gain values to improve the dynamics (but
that still has to be addressed).

Most real world designs would use a sample and hold circuit to sample
the output at it's maximum point and use that to control the feedback,
similar to the topology I think I posted a while ago.  It might be
worthwhile looking at that.


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