Hi,
I have a ferrite bead circuit to filter out noises.
But when I did a worst case test with a tube light On/OFF continuously, I got spikes on CRO which has 20mS duration and around 300mV amplitude.
I think this is coming from AC mains, because it is 230V/50Hz.

Can anybody give some idea to suppress this spike.


Thanks n Regards
Jaison

 

You could use a snubber circuit.

 

Why are these artificially-induced spikes significant? What is the function of the circuit that causes problems with the spikes?

 

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Thanks a lot for your answers.
I am giving here my circuit diagram and spike waveform observed(AC coupled channels)for your reference as asked by SgtWookie.
This circuit is connected to the output of an SMPS which has 12V, 2A DC output.
Again I think it may be possible if I could filter out 50Hz hum, because it is seen from the spike that it is of around 20mSec width.

(CRO Channel-1 connected to the input and Channel-2 to the output of this circuit).

Hoping a good solution,