Hello, I have been trying to make a LED to LED transmission work with 2 LED's. Now I do receive some signal but the problem is that the receiver diode's capacitance is apparently pretty high so it takes a pretty long time to discharge it, which makes it that the signal builds up and down over time. The receiver is just built from a voltage follower with an opamp that has very high input impedance, a high pass to filter out the DC part of the ambient light and a non inverting amplifier. Also I can use only positive supply voltage. Now one of the reasons the signal even gets worse is that after the high pass the signal is partly negative which can make some of the 1's very hard to notice even after amplification. Now I think I would be able to recover the signal if it strong enough but maybe some of you guys have an idea how to improve the signal. I have attached a picture of the signal before(orange) and after(green) filtering. Also I have a picture of the amplified signal.
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Jocculator wrote: > The receiver is just built from a voltage follower Any kind of schematics available? > is that after the high pass the signal is partly negative How can this be?
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Without a circuit diagram there's no way we can help improve your project. What frequency ranges do you try to amplify?
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I am not trying to amplify a very high frequency signal. Maybe I can get it up to 1kHz that would be great and sufficient already. I have put a picture of the schematic. The Voltage over a Capacitance is proportional to the integral of the current over time. Since the current sometimes is negative since the capacitance charges and discharges the voltage will also be sometimes negative.
It would be helpful sense to provide the values of the resistores. Without having tried it by myself: I would suggest to use a trans impedance Amplifier instead of a voltage follower for the left part of the circuit.
R2 220k, R3 100k, R4 1k Transimpedance converter doesn't work in this case since the current is way too low. I tried it and I just cannot get a voltage at the output. I also tried transimpedance with a reverse bias voltage to increase photocurrent and it didn't work.
Jocculator wrote: > since the current is way too low. No way to increase it? Because when your signal is kind of pure noise(**) it looks like in "Signal_before_and_after_filter.png", then you will not find any kind of circuit to "descramble" that. (**) at least I don't recognize anything akin a binary signal therein.
No I don't think I have an easy way to increase it. Since I have only a positive supply voltage I can't really bias the diode very easily. I did try to bias it via a virtual ground but that didn't really improve the signal. The Signal looks like that because the LED has a capacitive effect and I can't really change that.
Jocculator wrote: > The Signal looks like Whats the payload in it? What do you want to get out of it?
What I want to get out of it? It's not really clear but most likely some error codes so not really much information at all. That's why I'm contempt with the low bit rates.
Jocculator wrote: > What I want to get out of it? What information (aka 0 and 1 bits) is hidden in the noise of your screenshots?
Hi. You use a LED as receiver ? Please specify the partnumbers of both LEDs. Best regards
You must the Fotodiode umdrehen and the Verstärkung from the Amplifier must be higher. Put a 1M Resistor in the Leitung from PIN 7 to 6 and überbrücke ihn for example with 10pF. Ich weiß, mein Englisch ist nicht so gut, aber ich habe keine Lust, in meinem Alter nochmal zum Englischkurs zu gehen.
I use OSRAM 6-lead in-line MULTILED LRTB GFTG. for both transmission and receiver I use the blue LED. But I probably will from now on try out other LED's. As far as I could see there is no built in extra capacitance. So it must be the inherent capacitance of the LED itself.
A LED as a receiver can work. But it depends on the type of LED. Better use a dedicated photodiode or photoresistor instead.
Hier in deutsch für dich :) Als ich ausgetestet habe wo ich ein Signal mit der LED empfangen kann habe ich festgestellt, dass es bei einem Spannungsfolger keinen Unterschied macht, wie rum ich die LED schalte außer, dass sich das Vorzeichen der Spannung ändert. Da ich aber nur positive Versorgungsspannung benutzen kann muss ich die LED in Durchlassrichtung schalten sonst funktioniert der OPamp leider nicht. Ok du willst quasi, dass ich nicht einfach so rückkoppele sondern mit einem 1M und 10pf parallel. Was für eine Schaltung wäre das dann und was würde es bewirken?
Have a look on this project. It could help you a lot: https://hackaday.com/2019/12/22/optical-communication-using-leds-alone/
Wow I just used other LED's and it worked perfectly without any filtering. I am honestly so confused. Anybody know why those particular LED's have that capacitive behaviour? I have tried 2 different RGB LED's from OSRAM and they both behaved the same so its probably just how they work because I didn't see any capacitors in the datasheets.
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