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ogedik wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 24, 2023 2:17 pm

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Hi,

I have a question about high negative voltage on osilloscope. I am trying to start and stop control DC motor with TIP122 transistor by signaling D3 pin on ESP-C3-13 kit. There's no problem when I set HIGH D3 pin and scope displays ~12V without any noise. Things getting weird when I set LOW D3 pin. When I set D3 to LOW, scope show -67 V with unstable graph.

I checked FFT graph and found out many noise inside the signal, but it is an easy circuit and shouldn't have kind of noise. If I face with noise I should see same problem at FFT graph on +12V too. Am I correct?

So, can anybody make a comment why I am facing -67 V with unstable graph when I set D3 pin to LOW?

As an additional information, multimeter measure 0 voltage level whereas I see that high negative voltage level on scope when D3 is LOW.

Please find scheme and scope outputs.

-67V with large scale:
IMG_1308.jpg

-67V with FFT (FFT graph is red):
IMG_1312.jpg

12v stable:
IMG_1310.jpg

Thank you for your helps,

Orkun Gedik

Craige Hales wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 25, 2023 12:23 am

check the Q1 part number. Double check the pinout.
The scope ground must be connected to the circuit ground (not a motor pin.)
https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q ... transistor hints the 10K resistor might be too big.

Scope probe to the base on Q1:
It's been a long time, but I think it has to be high (5V) to turn it on and low (gnd) to turn it off.

Scope probe to the collector:
if Q1 is on, the collector should be near ground, not 12V.
if Q1 is off and the motor provides a path to 12V, the collector should be near 12V.
if there is no motor installed, I think you might expect to see noise when Q1 is off.