ripple & hum HPF?

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No progress. "Listening" to the PSU test reviled nice 100Hz ripple & it's harmonics, and moving the ground of the adjust trimmers gave about the same result as on the FFT above. I managed to push down the 50Hz hum (yesterday) by increasing 10uF to 100uF (transient handling cap on the output of the PSU) and by bypassing 1000uF caps with .1uF polys but nothing can push that 100Hz below -80dB. Any ideas left?

Thank you.
 
While it isn't clear from discussion so far, if there is raw AC being rectified, you must pay attention to reservoir cap charging currents.

I prefer to think of every wire or circuit board trace as a resistor, to visualize and deal with voltage build up on traces.

The current path between transformer winding, to diode, to capacitor, and from capacitor, back to transformer should be a clean simple path. The node between the ground leads of the two reservoirs should be low impedance (short) and from this node, a single path to regulator ground references. The current flowing in the ground reference path will be DC or audio so not a source of hum.

There will be peak currents many times higher than average current in the cap charging loop, so keep these paths isolated so they don't contaminate clean grounds. Also in extreme cases look out for lead dress of transformer leads as they will carry high peak (hum) currents. It's all pretty simple once you visualize what is going on.

JR
 
Follow the path of the charging current... there will be voltage drop in those traces. It can be harmlessly ignored in it's own loop, and referenced to at a single point so that circulating current doesn't corrupt other grounds.

JR
 
John

great advice, thank you very much. My layout had a few too- long
illogical ground tracks, I sorted that out and now I have s.n. ~100dB.
Thanks to everyone else, who posted their opinions, I learned from this
a great deal.

cheerz :guinness: :sam: :guinness: :sam: :guinness: :sam: :guinness:
 

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