Re: Adding a DAC, DRO wrapping

["Steve Carlisle" <quatsein-at-island.net>]

Chris, I was just checking to see if there was a lower cost for
a servo board than from Sensoray, with dac,adc,encoder and I/O
for $300. Always hoping.

Steve

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> From: Chris Stratton <stratton-at-mdc.net>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <emc-at-nist.gov>
> Subject: Re: Adding a DAC, DRO wrapping
> Date: Saturday, May 26, 2001 7:43 PM
> 
> 
> > Chris, where is the Analog Devices RT802 dac board available from?
> 
> The trash pile outside the lab down the hall from mine at work, when
> they were cleaning up in preparation for asbestos remediation...
> 
> Seriously, it's discontinued.  The good news though is there is
> nothing complicated about the board at all... if someone wanted a
> couple channels of DAC's it would be no big deal to put some of the
> same or similar DAC's on a prototype card.  
> 
> Mostly I consider it an example of: I have this simple DAC, how do I
> use it with EMC?  
> 
> The good news is that if you can find a DAC board that has the
> electrical performance you need, and example driver code for any
> operating system or datasheets for the important parts, making it work
> with EMC is not that hard.
> 
> What I'd like to do next is control 8254 timers to generate PWM
> signals for switching amps.  
> 
> Chris
> 
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