Hi All,
I am looking into some circuit design regarding the impact of overloading the input, nominal voltage is 24V but want to see what will happen at 40V overload - namely the power path and components situated around this.
The circuit basically has lots of analog blocks so voltages going to ADCs for sensing etc as well as DC Motor so a few FETS also, I already have seen some components that are potentially overloaded (caps not rated sufficently etc) as well as voltage dividers that could supply over 5V into a PIC (18F - Microchip), the ADC inputs. These inputs are voltage driven right? how to best establish the current into the PIC inputs from the voltage dividers?
Is there anything else I can do to establish the impact of overloading? LTSpice or model sim could be used perhaps.?
thanks for suggestions.!
I am looking into some circuit design regarding the impact of overloading the input, nominal voltage is 24V but want to see what will happen at 40V overload - namely the power path and components situated around this.
The circuit basically has lots of analog blocks so voltages going to ADCs for sensing etc as well as DC Motor so a few FETS also, I already have seen some components that are potentially overloaded (caps not rated sufficently etc) as well as voltage dividers that could supply over 5V into a PIC (18F - Microchip), the ADC inputs. These inputs are voltage driven right? how to best establish the current into the PIC inputs from the voltage dividers?
Is there anything else I can do to establish the impact of overloading? LTSpice or model sim could be used perhaps.?
thanks for suggestions.!