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RE: Interesting Concept... or complete idiocy?


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  • Subject: RE: Interesting Concept... or complete idiocy?
  • From: "Ian Lowe" <ian@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 21:58:56 -0000
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yeah, I have the PDF of Mr Plunkett's home brew X-10.

And, yeah, his parts list is highly extensive... tbh though, he has tried
to
replicate an X-10 module in it's entirety. He still uses a 120khz tuned
circuit, with amplification stages to boost that signal till it pops the
rails.

What I am suggesting is effectively removing the zero crossing detection,
oscillator, amplifier and doing it all on the digital side. by being smart
with the ADC signal..

I guess what Li posted is the closest to what I am suggesting, although
again, this is as an enhancement to an existing circuit rather than as a
fundamentally different approach.

I think i'll try some experiments, and see if I can get something useful to
happen.

Thanks!

Ian.

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Shields [mailto:alan@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 20 February 2002 20:55
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Interesting Concept... or complete idiocy?


No, I only found it this afternoon, looking quickly at the component list I
don't see anything particularly exotic so I would guess about 20-30 quid.

I was only looking to see how he was driving the triac as my own attempts a
couple of years ago to make a disco lighting controller where not that
successful and i've still got a maplin bag full of triacs & opto
isolators.
If i'm really sensible I'll give this one a miss.

Alan Shields
alan@xxxxxxx

On Wednesday, February 20, 2002, at 08:15 pm, Stuart Whyte wrote:


Alan,

Have you looked into building one of these??  Any ideas of approx cost?

Cheers

Stuart



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