In Reply to: RE: "homemade dual opamps." posted by sailor321 on December 21, 2016 at 16:38:31:
He's not really making a "homemade opamp". That would require a couple billion dollar investment in a semiconductor fab. He's not even making a discrete opamp from a handful of transistors.
He is simply incorporating a minor tweak to another opamp and placing it on a header adapting it to fit into his existing opamp IC socket. More specifically he is using an opamp with an offset adjustment to null out any DC offset at the output of the opamp. This is typically done with a multi-turn trimpot.
Also, I'm not sure what he means when he says "it's easier if you have an opamp tester". Personally, I've never heard of such a thing. Try Googling it. You -might- find an oddball classroom gadget or hobby toy that fits that description . A good digital multi-meter (DMM) is what most professionals would use.
A representative op-amp block diagram with 100K-Ohm offset adjustment trimpot.
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Follow Ups
- RE: "homemade dual opamps." - AbeCollins 23:18:05 12/21/16 (6)
- Please - not another AC/fmak playground spat. PLEASE. - Ryelands 04:24:15 12/22/16 (2)
- That would require a couple billion dollar investment in a semiconductor fab. - fmak 04:49:23 12/22/16 (1)
- Fmak is BACK!!! - Ivan303 07:33:32 12/22/16 (0)
- Personally, I've never heard of such a thing - fmak 03:54:37 12/22/16 (2)
- RE: Personally, I've never heard of such a thing - AbeCollins 12:30:18 12/22/16 (1)
- RE: Personally, I've never heard of such a thing - fmak 21:50:39 12/22/16 (0)