Fundamentals Friday
Dave takes you through designing a signal overload detector circuit from scratch and then builds it up on the breadboard.
Window comparators, schmitt inverters, capacitor charging, pulse stretching, common mode input range, tongue angle tweaking, it's all here.

Forum Topic: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-471-overload-detector-circuit-design

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