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Old 12-08-2011, 04:51 PM   #5261 (permalink)
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Notice that U54 isn't in there yet. That's one of the 4 HCPL-4506 optocouplers. The datasheet says that the propagation delay variation from part to part is as much as 500nanoseconds...:


Fran said that it was probably less than that... Well, as usual, he was right, but he didn't realize how right he was:
Turn off delay was about 45 nanoseconds before it got the memo to go down.


Here's a DIFFERENT hcpl-4506. Maybe a delay of 46? hahaha:


Like 85-90 nanoseconds before it starts to turn on.:


And a different one for turn on:


Man, these things are the same within like 5 nanoseconds or something. That's 5 billionths of a second. I think the mosfets can handle being turned on with a difference of 5 billionths of a second. haha.

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