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montak
I need help making a low bandpass, mid. bad pass, and high bandpass filter circuits i don't what resistors capacitors or inductors i should use i keep asking my teacher but when he explains it it just goes over my head could someone dumb it down for please?
montak
i need to make one that does 0-500 Hz another that does 500Hz-5Khz and one that does 5Khz and over can someone please help?
Ron
Hi Montak,
What you need to do is to use the reactance of inductors and capacitors to either:
Shunt the freq's you don't want and / or pass the freq's that you do want.
Look at the formulas X(L) = (2 pi) X (f) x (L) and X© = 1/[(2 pi) x (f) x ©]

The higher the freq, the more the resistance of and inductor and the lower the resistance of a capacitor and vice versa.
A high pass filter will use a capacitor in series and an inductor in shunt, and a high pass is just the opposite. A band pass is a little more tricky, but you can use a pi network of caps and inductors to block or shunt the freq's you don't want and pass what you do.
I'm being vague on purpose.
Here's a decent reference site: http://www.tpub.com/neets/book2/4c.htm
Let me know how it's going.
Peace,
Ron

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