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Isolated Power Supply for Digital
Panel Meters
-- September 13, 2008
Many inexpensive
digital panel meters, such as the one shown below, are designed to operate from a 9v
battery. However, the nature of the panel meter internal design often requires
that the DC supply used to power the device be isolated from the ground terminal of
the panel meter’s input. This often makes it difficult to use with a common
connection between a DC power supply ground and a sensor’s circuit ground. But,
you can generate this floating voltage fairly easily using the simple circuit below.
The circuit below is powered from a 12v to 15v supply and generates a
100KHz square wave signal, using a CMOS version of the 555 timer. This AC voltage is
rectified and limited to +9v using a charge pump method. The two 0.01uF capacitors
maintain a floating voltage for the panel meter, so its voltmeter ground input can also be
connected to the DC power supply ground.
Click
on Drawing Below to view PDF version of Schematic
