Re: [Emc-users] Audio hardware as EMC output?

2008-04-27 Thread Colin MacKenzie
I like your way of thinking. Don't forget to aticipate any audio processing blocks in between your software and sound card output. There are many processors and filters on the input ADC for example. I don't believe there is much of anything on the output path, but I would check. You will probably w

Re: [Emc-users] Audio hardware as EMC output?

2008-04-01 Thread Jim Coleman
My original intentions were to create the sine to drive an AC motor. After i started thinking about incorporating it with EMC, i thought that it might be possible to get a higher frequency output than the parport, for running pwm driven amps. I'm curious if anyone is familiar with coding involvin

Re: [Emc-users] Audio hardware as EMC output?

2008-04-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 01 April 2008, Roland Jollivet wrote: >I'm sure this will fit the bill > >http://www.national.com/pf/LM/LME49811.html > > >Regards >Roland As a driver for the high power analog stages yes, but note that its forte is a 200 volt output swing, at only 9 milliamps of output, so to continue

Re: [Emc-users] Audio hardware as EMC output?

2008-04-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 01 April 2008, Jon Elson wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> There are no caps on a class D output, in fact the circuitry is isolated >> from as much capacitance in the load as possible with an inductor. >> Anything over 10 pfs or so just wastes switching power in the active parts >> and can

Re: [Emc-users] Audio hardware as EMC output?

2008-04-01 Thread Roland Jollivet
I'm sure this will fit the bill http://www.national.com/pf/LM/LME49811.html Regards Roland On 01/04/2008, Jon Elson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > There are no caps on a class D output, in fact the circuitry is isolated > from > > as much capacitance in the load as p

Re: [Emc-users] Audio hardware as EMC output?

2008-04-01 Thread Jon Elson
Gene Heskett wrote: > > There are no caps on a class D output, in fact the circuitry is isolated from > as much capacitance in the load as possible with an inductor. Anything over > 10 pfs or so just wastes switching power in the active parts and can lead to > the destruction of the parts. >

Re: [Emc-users] Audio hardware as EMC output?

2008-04-01 Thread Jon Elson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jim, > > Most audio amplifiers have a large capacitor on the output to block DC > current. DC is not good for speakers. Class D power amps use PWM based > drivers that might work for driving motors. I am not sure but I don't > think they have the caps on the output.

Re: [Emc-users] Audio hardware as EMC output?

2008-04-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 01 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Jim, > >Most audio amplifiers have a large capacitor on the output to block DC >current. DC is not good for speakers. Class D power amps use PWM based >drivers that might work for driving motors. I am not sure but I don't >think they have the c

Re: [Emc-users] Audio hardware as EMC output?

2008-04-01 Thread jcombs
Jim, Most audio amplifiers have a large capacitor on the output to block DC current. DC is not good for speakers. Class D power amps use PWM based drivers that might work for driving motors. I am not sure but I don't think they have the caps on the output. You would have to look at the specs f

[Emc-users] Audio hardware as EMC output?

2008-03-31 Thread Jim Coleman
I've been playing with using an audio amplifier with a tone generator to make a low power VFD, and have been wondering what it would take to build a HAL module to produce simple audio waveforms. After I got to thinking, it seems that audio hardware could probably do a higher frequency PWM than the