So i was looking for a way to make a negative voltage. Did a bunch of google and came up with a number of different ways. One that was kind of catchy was to use a 555 timer as an arsetable vibrator with a couple of caps and diodes to invert a signal voltage.
So in the above schematic, everything on the right of the 555 timer just sets up the chip to make a square wave which is then fed into C3. C3 and D1 invert the signal and D2 and C4 act as a filter.
So i built this on the breadboard as it gets very little love in this house. The cap on the right is the input and the output is taken from the junction of D2 and C2.
Using my signal generator rather than a 555 timer, I fed an 8v 50khz signal into the circuit. Yes my RedPotato scope has loss from the input protection diodes on its input and i am not using any compensation. So the yellow trace in the scope output is the input signal and the 2nd probe was used to measure the output voltage, 8v in -7v out, which is about right accounting for all the diode losses on the scope input and in the circuit under test. All in all i learned something out of this, which i am happy about and now actually understand what its doing and how it works.
