Ground?

[DaveC]

This is a segment of a schematic of a Yamaha receiver:

http://www.tinyuploads.com/images/8LzeOF.jpg

My question is about the 4 diodes in mid screen, 2 pairs, each pair
back-to-back.

What purpose do these diodes serve?

The conductor common to all diodes runs to the left and connects to the
shield on all low-level RCA output connectors.

The conductor running to the right of the upper pair of diodes serves as
ground for some circuitry, as you can see, and is also connected to ground at
the bottom edge of the board, center.

Here's where the ground conductor originates (seen at bottom of previous
schematic):

http://www.tinyuploads.com/images/8O0dYH.jpg

The conductor running to the right of the lower pair of diodes runs to the
right and connects to a terminal labeled "Earth" (top left corner in the
following schematic):

http://www.tinyuploads.com/images/zTnLl1.jpg

These all serve as ground and/or earth and are connected together though
these diodes: 3 conductors (analog ground, earth, output connector shield.

Why the separation via diodes? What purpose do these diodes serve and how?

Thanks,
Dave

 

[Andrew Gabriel]

This is a segment of a schematic of a Yamaha receiver:

http://www.tinyuploads.com/images/8LzeOF.jpg

My question is about the 4 diodes in mid screen, 2 pairs, each pair
back-to-back.

What purpose do these diodes serve?

The conductor common to all diodes runs to the left and connects to the
shield on all low-level RCA output connectors.

The conductor running to the right of the upper pair of diodes serves as
ground for some circuitry, as you can see, and is also connected to ground at
the bottom edge of the board, center.

Here's where the ground conductor originates (seen at bottom of previous
schematic):

http://www.tinyuploads.com/images/8O0dYH.jpg

The conductor running to the right of the lower pair of diodes runs to the
right and connects to a terminal labeled "Earth" (top left corner in the
following schematic):

http://www.tinyuploads.com/images/zTnLl1.jpg

These all serve as ground and/or earth and are connected together though
these diodes: 3 conductors (analog ground, earth, output connector shield.

Why the separation via diodes? What purpose do these diodes serve and how?

Amplifier stages may have a separated ground to prevent ground
loops in external cabling from inducing hum. The diodes serve to
clamp the separated grounds at no more than the diode forward voltage
drop (typically 0.6V). There's probably an interesting coupling between
the separate grounded stages, possibly using op-amps to cancel out any
differential signal between the two grounds.

Difficult to be sure without seeing more of the schematic.

 

[DaveC]

Difficult to be sure without seeing more of the schematic.

<http://elektrotanya.com/yamaha_rx-v992_sm.pdf/download.html>

 

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http://www.tinyuploads.com/images/8O0dYH.jpg

Why is R346 there ?

Is the mains plug assumed to be polarized ??