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> Then I decided I'd screwed up my design sketch by requiring one of the opamps to sink significant current very close to the negative rail, which is something
by dragontamer 2y ago
> Then I decided I'd screwed up my design sketch by requiring one of the opamps to sink significant current very close to the negative rail, which is something even "rail-to-rail" opamps can't do; I was planning to use millivolts from ground to represent measured nanoamps.
Get an OpAmp specifically designed for current sense applications.
OpAmps for current sense applications have high accuracy near 0 Volts and Vos measured in single digit microvolts.
Oh, you WILL lose bandwidth with these designs. So make sure you are allowed to be much much slower.
- kragen 2y agoThanks! This is probably excellent advice, and I wish I could follow it. Being slower is not a big problem, but needing specialized parts might be, due to supply-chain issues. (More detail in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42627042 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42627042.)