How would such work? In the current version of the FLM you would need to transform a pulse sequence to an appropriate voltage... (what currently is also the only option capable to be handled by the FLM's configuration settings and web software) - my option did the opposite, I transformed a current clamp's voltage via an additional Analog-to-Digital-Converter to a pulse sequence to utilize additional clamps with the FLM's pulse ports directly.
Technically this is possible, of course: An ATtiny could take the pulses and compute the corresponding bit combination to feed a digital-to-analog-converter (R/2R ladder) then attached to the analog ports of the FLM.
As discussed in another thread, there is also a pure software solution: Change the AVR-part of the FLM software to accept additional pulse ports and for that desolder the capacitor/resistor in the input path of the FLM's clamp connectors. BUT: Challenge in the software currently is that the pulse ports use the INT0 and INT1 of the AVR; for using the current ADC-ports as pulse ports in the same way, they would need to be reconfigured to PCINT inputs (pin change interrupt - see an example how corresponding code could look like...) - but then still the config options in the software's web part need to be changed as well.
Quite some effort in any case...
Best regards
Markus
bazzle |
Seeing as it looks too hard (at least for me as Im not sure what you just said means :( )Im hoping a later version of the Flukso will have that capability as most things are moving to Pulse now days.
Hopefully a later software revision and user update will incorpoate what you said above with instructions on what components to remove.
Bear in mind many users are not code or hardware competent.
Bazzle
gebhardm |
Hey, this is the developer's corner ;-)
bazzle |
That right, thats why I was asking if anyone had developed a convertor. ;)
How would such work? In the current version of the FLM you would need to transform a pulse sequence to an appropriate voltage... (what currently is also the only option capable to be handled by the FLM's configuration settings and web software) - my option did the opposite, I transformed a current clamp's voltage via an additional Analog-to-Digital-Converter to a pulse sequence to utilize additional clamps with the FLM's pulse ports directly.
Technically this is possible, of course: An ATtiny could take the pulses and compute the corresponding bit combination to feed a digital-to-analog-converter (R/2R ladder) then attached to the analog ports of the FLM.
As discussed in another thread, there is also a pure software solution: Change the AVR-part of the FLM software to accept additional pulse ports and for that desolder the capacitor/resistor in the input path of the FLM's clamp connectors. BUT: Challenge in the software currently is that the pulse ports use the INT0 and INT1 of the AVR; for using the current ADC-ports as pulse ports in the same way, they would need to be reconfigured to PCINT inputs (pin change interrupt - see an example how corresponding code could look like...) - but then still the config options in the software's web part need to be changed as well.
Quite some effort in any case...
Best regards
Markus
Seeing as it looks too hard (at least for me as Im not sure what you just said means :( )Im hoping a later version of the Flukso will have that capability as most things are moving to Pulse now days.
Hopefully a later software revision and user update will incorpoate what you said above with instructions on what components to remove.
Bear in mind many users are not code or hardware competent.
Bazzle
Hey, this is the developer's corner ;-)
That right, thats why I was asking if anyone had developed a convertor. ;)