Hello everybody. I recently build a system for reading a current analog signal using the LOG112 logarithmic amplifier and the 16-bit ADC ADS8505. I directly connected the current input to the first input of the LOG112 (I1) (a put a reference current on I2 as shown on FIGURE 3 of its datasheet) and the output of the LOG112 (using the internal o-amp A3 for level scaling) to the input of the resistive network of the ADS8505. The problem was that the LOG112 broke. My feeling is that when a power on the system, an initial negative current was generated and flowed through the input I1 of the LOG112. Is possible that a negative current directly applied to the input of the LOG112 breaks it?
Application Rreference: The input current source is a copper plate on a vacuum chamber that collects positive ionized particles. I’m using this system to read this current signal. Additionally, around this copper plate, there is a second metal plate, isolated from the first one and a distance more or less of 1 cm, which is held to -300V. I think that when I power on -300V power supply, some electrons passed from the second to the first plate generating a negative current. I verify the isolation of the two plates and it is ok, so I don’t think that the -300V were applied to the LOG112 input.
Thank you very much for your help in advance.