Isolating harmonics with band-pass filter

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This discussion confirms that electric waveforms like square, sawtooth, and triangle waves can be decomposed into their constituent sine waves using band-pass filters (BPF). To effectively isolate specific harmonics, it is crucial to employ high-quality, sharp band-pass filters. The degree of harmonic suppression is relative and depends on the desired outcome for isolating unwanted frequencies.

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If electric waveforms such as square waves, sawtooth waves, and triangle waves are really no more than sine waves with added harmonics, one could run such a wave through a bandpass filter (or several) and isolate one of the harmonics as a sine wave?
 
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Yes! You need good and sharp BPF though. Also, it's all relative, it's all about how low you want to suppress the unwanted harmonics.
 

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