??? 03/17/07 04:54 Modified: 03/17/07 05:12 Read: times |
#135155 - Looks exactly like VLF noise! Responding to: ???'s previous message |
David said:
The low frequency gain instability is a cyclical (almost - but not quite repeatable) wandering up and down of gain - not zero - in the order of, at worst, 1 part in 30,000 (15 bit accuracy!) over the course of 10 seconds, or longer (<0.1Hz). As I said, I put this down to an ADC peculiarity - but would love to be proved wrong! For me that looks exactly like very low frequency noise! By the way, why do you think that AC excitation is no good idea? There's nothing better to reduce noise! In combination with a lock-in amplifier (synchronous demodulation) ultra low noise and fast settling could be achieved. I have seen this already... Kai |