Ok, but open loop as I described? I bicmos design, there are two common "junk" buffers. The junkiest (sp?) is going up a PNP and down a NPN. No feedback. You live with the vbe mismatch. Next up the food chain is the long tail pair (diff amp) with emitter follower. With one gain stage, it is reasonable stable.
-----Original Message----- From: "John Miles" <jmi...@pop.net> Sender: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 01:30:24 To: 'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement'<time-nuts@febo.com> Reply-To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement <time-nuts@febo.com> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Low noise power supplies? > Are 4 and 5 regulated? Or is the zener picked to compensate for the VBE > drops? > > Any of these circuits where the output transistor is in an emitter > follower configuration will have its noise effected by the load current, > since that current directly effects the output transistor transconductance. The load in all cases was a couple hundred mA worth of resistance at the voltage in question, as I recall. It's been a few years since I captured these plots. The Zeners were just whatever parts came to hand, 1N474x parts basically. I didn't care about the 1.4V drop across the Darlington, just the resulting noise. -- john Miles Design LLC _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.