Help with mismatched circuit
The results were the same as with the circuit with traces' characteristic impedance of 50 ohm. How is this possible? I thought that I wold have some some losses due to the reflecting coefficient: R=(67-50)/(67+50), where R is the reflected voltage (and this is to be repeated by all 6 of the devices).
How is this possible? Am I forgetting something?
Please help understand this thing...
Best Regards,
LandLack
Matching at both line ends and electrical length has to be considered.What's the actual circuit?
going from 50 ohm to 75 ohm system will give a VSWR=1.5:1 (acceptable) , and about 4% of power will be lost due to this mismatch of (25 ohm) ..
u can do all the calculation using basic formulas...
the point is it is so low 0.04 (4%) part of the incident power that it becomes un measurable... in your case the difference is more low 17.5 ohm...
so i suggest for understanding the mismatch try increase the impedance of the trace so the result becomes more obvious...
if it didn't work too than u must be missing something else that needs to be bugged out!
Cheers
Maybe the line lengths between the components are quite short? In that case the line impedance mismatch will not have a major impact.
More generally, connection of a 50 ohm source and load by a line of different impedance won't be described by a single real reflection coefficient as considered in post #1 and #3. Instead you get a complex reflection coefficient as function of the line length. It will be zero for length of n*λ/2 and maximal for λ/4, 3*λ/4, ...