Hi all, I’m an ME student and very new to circuitry. I designed a non-inverting op-amp on a breadboard with a LM741 that functions between a positive voltage supply and ground, no negative supply. I used Rf= 33kohm and Ri = 1kohm. I excited it with 10V and used 0.01 V as my input voltage. From a TinkerCAD simulation and design equations, I expected an output voltage around 0.3 V. I wanted a minimum gain around 30. However, in testing I had an output voltage of 8.88 V, meaning an 880 gain. Does anyone have any insight on what may have happened? Thank you!
My op-amp produced way more gain than anticipated. Any ideas why?
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