LM301AN substitute?

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GodsmacK

Joined Jun 18, 2016
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Hello, I'm looking for an improvement or equivalent for the LM301AN because I'm making an oscillator but I gives me some distortion in the output waveform. Hope you can help me...
 

hp1729

Joined Nov 23, 2015
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Hello, I'm looking for an improvement or equivalent for the LM301AN because I'm making an oscillator but I gives me some distortion in the output waveform. Hope you can help me...
Some differences exist is offset and frequency compensation, but most op amps should work. It is hard to get specific without a schematic and waveforms you were getting.
 

dl324

Joined Mar 30, 2015
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Hello, I'm looking for an improvement or equivalent for the LM301AN because I'm making an oscillator but I gives me some distortion in the output waveform. Hope you can help me...
Post a schematic and a picture of the distortion.
 

Thread Starter

GodsmacK

Joined Jun 18, 2016
14
I'm making this circuit, from which I get tunable frequency triangle waveform from U1 and a square from U2. I have no problems when simulating it.
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However, in real life, this is how the triangle waveform looks like with the LM301. Much distorsion and frequency doesnt change

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Yet, the square is good and I can tune it.
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PD. I used Hantek USB Oscilloscope.
 

GopherT

Joined Nov 23, 2012
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@GodsmacK

In real life, your OP amp is not perfectly balanced & compensated. That OP was designed before laser trimming was used. From the datasheet, there is information how to balance that op amp.

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DickCappels

Joined Aug 21, 2008
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The Thread Starter has another thread going on this forum, apparently about the same signal generator. Having more than one thread for a given topic is usually not allowed but since this thread is sticking to op-amp selection I will not close it, though other moderators might have different ideas.

The URL of the earlier thread that continues to this time is provided below for context for this discussion.
http://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/t...itude-function-generator.125115/#post-1015223
 

schmitt trigger

Joined Jul 12, 2010
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You can get away by not using the compensation capacitor on the left-hand opamp which is operating as a comparator. But the second one which operates as a linear integrator, should have a compensation capacitor.
 
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