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Re: Now for something completely different

Post by Tramp » Sat Jan 07, 2012 7:29 am

Do you have to test with the meter in parallel or series? If its parrallel just put a variable resistor on the end of one of the test leads & start it on say 1 Meg ohm & turn it down until you get a reading on your scale! And to get an accurate graph use an oscilliscope, im sure your college will have one,

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Re: Now for something completely different

Post by Edweird » Sat Jan 07, 2012 7:46 pm

Thanks Tramp, I think that's what I'll do if they let me.
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Re: Now for something completely different

Post by Edweird » Sat Mar 31, 2012 9:47 pm

It's been a while since I've posted about this on the forum, kinda bumping an old thread here, but I've finally got my prototype rev counter working. I decided to use multiplexed 7 segment displays instead of the LED bar because it looks more retro and to do the LED bar I would need an unholy amount more components, (30 LEDs, two resistors for each, a comparator for each etc) and I want to keep the overall component count down so that the PCB I eventually get made for it will be fairly small so that it'll fit in a nice little box.
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Re: Now for something completely different

Post by turbo-tom » Sat Mar 31, 2012 10:30 pm

lookig good ed looking good :guns: :thumbup:
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Re: Now for something completely different

Post by Edweird » Sun Apr 01, 2012 10:50 am

Thanks. I'm quite proud of it. The initial design used 4 different microchips, but with a little help from one of the teachers-in-training at college, we came up with a way to get a PIC chip to do the entire conversion from hertz to 7 seg display. And, it only takes about 20 microseconds longer for it to work out 22,500 rpm than it does 0 rpm, which is much better than my initial design. I've haven't added the digit for the tens of thousands to the display though, cause it wouldn't be worth it.
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Re: Now for something completely different

Post by ScottieJ » Mon Apr 02, 2012 12:05 pm

sounds good, now where is a vid of it working :poke:
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Re: Now for something completely different

Post by Edweird » Mon Apr 02, 2012 6:24 pm

I'll have to find something I can borrow from someone to video it with. My crappy old Nokia can't record videos that I can put on youtube or whatever.
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